Annotated Importance of Being Earnest
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674048980
Subjects: English literature
Description: The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895.