Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; an Ideal Husband; the Importance of Being Earnest; a Woman of No Importance; Salome; the Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; a Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane (World Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

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This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, as well as his once-banned Salome and several other little-known but fascinating dramas. H. Montgomery Hyde, an acknowledged expert on Wilde and author of several books on him, provides an introduction to Wilde's life and work with special attention to the composition and performance of the plays."Wilde is to me our only thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole theatre" (George Bernard Shaw)
  • ISBN10 1408121425
  • ISBN13 9781408121429
  • Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 12 May 1988)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Methuen Drama