The best of Oscar Wilde
Subtitle: selected plays and literary criticism
By: with an introduction by Sylvan Barnet and a new afterward by Marylu Hill
Contributors: Hill, Marylu; Barnet, Sylvan
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780451532220
Subjects: English drama; Quotations; English Authors
Work titles: Works
Description: Oscar Wild's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are featured here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong - with pithy, dialogue as fresh today as when it was written. In addition to Wilde's five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains: Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work - and his critics ; Some of his most brilliant critical writing, in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of today's literary theory ; An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of The Importance of Being Earnest ; With an introduction by Sylvan Barnet and a new Afterword by Marylu Hill.
Notes: Includes Afterword by Marylu Hill.
Table of contents: title: Plays: Salomé ; Lady Windermere's fan ; A woman of no importance ; An iIdeal husband ; The importance of being Earnest ; "The Gribsby episode" in The Importance of Being Earnest; title: Literary criticism: Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray ; Letter to the editor of the Scots Review ; from The decay of lying ; from The critic as artist ; An ideal husband at the Haymarket Theatre: A talk with Mr. Wilde; title: Mr. Oscar Wilde on Mr. Oscar Wilde.