Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest": A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production at St.James's Theatre, London, 1895 (Princess Grace Irish Library, No. 10.)

by Oscar Wilde

Joseph Donoghue, Ruth Bergen (Introduction), and Joseph Donohue (Editor)

This unique volume reconstructs the original 1895 production of Wilde's timeless classic. Based upon a new, reconstructive method for the study of theatrical performance that aims to set the play securely in its historical and cultural moment, the edition offers a wealth of detail about the staging and acting and numerous first production and early revival photographs. The reconstructed text itself, differing in important ways from the 1899 first edition, recaptures the essential comic vitality of the play.

• ISBN13: 9780861403783
• Publish Date: 14 February 1995
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 15 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Colin Smythe Ltd
• Edition: Annotated edition
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 378
• Language: English