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Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition: Revised Edition Paperback – 19 November 2015

by Francesca Coppa (Editor), Oscar Wilde (Author)

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A revised edition with a new introduction bringing this edition of Wilde's most popular play right up-to-date

The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition for students with on-page notes to help clarify meaning, and a completely new introduction. In the new introduction, Francesca Coppa explores recent critical approaches to the play, including queer and postcolonial readings, as well as giving the context in which the play was written and how it relates to Wilde's personal life and public persona. The introduction also discusses the play's stage history, providing students with an ideal overview of the play and its resonances for contemporary audiences.

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1472585208
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978-1472585202
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2
Publisher

METHUEN DRAMA
Publication date

19 November 2015
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English
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13.13 x 1.31 x 19.86 cm
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192 pages
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A revised edition with a new introduction bringing this edition of Wilde's most popular play right up-to-date

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Francesca Coppa is Professor of English,Muhlenberg College, USA

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ METHUEN DRAMA; 2 edition (19 November 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472585208
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472585202
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.13 x 1.31 x 19.86 cm

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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.
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Ajaz Ahmed Bhatt, (Ajaz Ahmed). Born in 2001 in District Poonch of Jammu and Kashmir, (Indian). Raised and educated primarily in district poonch, later pursued high school from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Kotaranka Rajouri. Later joined Cluster university of Jammu for B. A (hons) in English Literature and Later Masters in English literature.
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Rosie

Hilarious

Reviewed in Australia on 18 June 2017

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Laughed out loud, embarrassingly at times, with every single page I read and... I'm about to re-read it and do it all again. Oscar Wilde - what a genius!

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Pat McDonald

Still performed even after 120 years

Reviewed in Australia on 1 April 2018

Written in 1895 one of the most popular plays by Oscar Wilde and has attracted some of the most distinguished actors of all time. His ready wit and satirical portrayal of high society with its mores and fashionable traditions of the times is still highly amusing. An acceptance of a gentleman’s need to wander and a young lady’s need for romance has both Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing caught out in a lie, both claiming to be called Earnest because their paramours wouldn’t marry anyone who ism't called it. Often called ‘silly’ it is nonetheless hilarious. It probably contains some of the most famous of lines: “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” And of course Lady Bracknell’s declaration of “A Handbag!” Written in Oscar Wilde’s inimitable style, this play is still performed even after 120 years. This is my favourite. Pat McDonald British Crime Writer.

Reviewed in Australia on 8 July 2018

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Written as a play. Difficult to follow

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