Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Subtitle: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James Theatre, London, 1895 (Princess Grace Irish Library Series, 10)
Contributors: Joseph Donohue (Editor)
Publisher: A Colin Smythe Publication
Published: June 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780861403783
Subjects: Drama texts: 19th century; Plays & playwrights: 19th century; Importance of being earnest; Criticism, Textual; Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900; Stage history; Architecture; Biography / Autobiography; English; Literature: Classics; General; Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Wilde, Oscar; Wilde, Oscar,; 1854-1900; History - General; 1854-1900.
First sentence: On a snowy Thursday evening in February 1895, a fashionable London audience braved the frigid weather to make their way to the St. James's Theatre in King Street.