Plays
Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
- 1 Want to read
This Penguin collection contains Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays. He himself described Lady Windermere's Fan his first great stage success, as 'one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades'. Its combination of polished social drama and corruscatingly witty dialogue was repeated in A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband both of which were enthusiastically received by the public but savaged, much to Wilde's delight, by affronted critics. His greatest play, The Importance of Being Earnest was first produced in 1895. Wilde wrote of it: 'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy . . . that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all of the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality'.
This volume also includes Lord Alfred Douglas's translation of Salomé a short drama which Wilde wrote in French.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
English drama, Dramatic works, Plays, Drama in English, Fiction, generalPeople
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; Salomé
December 30, 1954, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
0140480161 9780140480160
|
aaaa
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
In Penguin Books The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan were first published (together) in 1940;
Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband (the three together) in 1948
The five plays first published in one volume 1954
Reprinted 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
Set in Monotype Bembo
Classifications
Contributors
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
| November 17, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| June 29, 2021 | Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten | person |
| February 13, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | remove fake subjects |
| July 22, 2017 | Edited by Mek | adding subject: In library |
| March 11, 2010 | Created by WorkBot | work found |