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PublisherBroadview Press

ISBN-101551116944

ISBN-139781551116945

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Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameImportance of Being Earnest

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2009

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDrama

AuthorOscar. Wilde

SeriesBroadview Editions Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length5.5 in

Item Width8.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsSamuel Lyndon Gladden's edition of The Importance of Being Earnest continues Broadview Press's proven tradition of excellence. This book will serve the undergraduate, general reader, and scholar. Gladden's introduction is provocative, and the ancillary materials are especially welcome. Gladden balances familiar with unexpected contemporary works - from Gilbert and Sullivan to Ada Leverson, playbills to reviews, poems to pictures, conduct manuals to dandy tracts - plus excerpts of Wilde's writings, including an earlier version of the play. Bibliography and chronology complete the presentation as one-stop shopping for an earnest acquaintance with Wilde's charmer as social text.

Dewey Edition23

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Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction Oscar Wilde: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Appendix A: Playbills for The Importance of Being Earnest(1895) The First, Uncensored Playbill The Second, Censored Playbill Appendix B: Reactions and Reviews From The Daily Graphic(15 February 1895) From William Archer, The World(20 February 1895) From The Observer(17 February 1895) From The Times(15 February 1895) From Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review(1895) From Max Beerbohm, Around Theatres(1902) Appendix C: Ada Leverson's "The Advisability of Not Being Brought Up in a Handbag" (1895) Ada Leverson, "The Advisability of Not Being Brought Up in a Handbag," Punch; or,The London Charivari(2 March 1895) Telegram from Oscar Wilde to Ada Leverson (15 February 1895) Appendix D: Three Works by Gilbert and Sullivan From W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride(1881) From W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria(1889) From W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, HMS Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor(1878) Appendix E: From J.G.F. Nicholson, Love in Earnest(1892) Appendix F: Conduct Manuals From Mrs. Humphrey, Manners for Men(1897) From Julia McNair Wright, Practical Life; or,Ways andMeans for Developing Character and Resources(1881) Appendix G: On Dandyism and on Wilde as a Dandy From Charles Kendrick, Ye Soul Agonies in Ye Life of Oscar Wilde(1882) George Frederick Keller, "The Modern Messiah," Wasp(31 March 1882) Linley Sambourne, "O.W. [Punch's Fancy Portraits 37]," Punch; or,The London Charivari(25 June 1881) From Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith, "No Wave of His Chiseled Hand" (1936) "Aestheticism as Oscar Understands It" (1882) "Mr. Wild [sic] of Borneo" (1882) W.H. Beard, "The Aesthetic Monkey" (1882) Appendix H: Other Works by Wilde From "A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated" (1894) From "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894) From "Preface," The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) From "The Decay of Lying" (1889) From De Profundis(1897; published 1962) Letter to Philip Houghton (February 1894) Letter to George Alexander (July 1894) Letter to George Alexander (September 1894) Letter to George Alexander (October 1894) Letter to an Unidentified Correspondent (February 1895) Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas (February 1895) Letter to R.V. Shone (February 1895) Appendix I: From the Original Four-Act Version Passages Regarding Algernon's and Ernest's Past-due Accounts Passages Illuminating the Characters and Roles of Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble Additional Passages Bibliography

SynopsisThe Importance of Being Earnestmarks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. The play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde's personal downfall when his lover's father, who would later bring about Wilde's arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production. In addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnestprovides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde's work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life., This edition's introduction and appendices focus on the play's textual history and its importance to late-Victorian culture.