The Importance of Being Earnest With Facsimile Of First-night Programme (aziloth Books)
Synopsis
'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband; he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity. This is the only one-volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wilde's creative process.Book details
- Series:
- New Mermaids (Book Vol. 9)
- Author:
- Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson
- ISBN:
- 9781408145166
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780713630404
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- 8-12
- Grades:
- Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2019-01-13
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 1957
- Copyright by:
- Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Drama, Plays and Theater, Literature and Fiction