Plays of Oscar Wilde

Resumen del libro

This book comes with an introduction and notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, "Lady Windermere's Fan". The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, "A Woman of No Importance", "An Ideal Husband", and his undisputed masterpiece, "The Importance of Being Earnest". This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy era to the controversial "Salome" and the little known fragments, "La Sainte Courtisane" and "A Florentine Tragedy". This edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Oscar Wildex{0026}lt;/B (1854-1900) fue un escritor, poeta y dramaturgo británico, famoso por su habitual ingenio y sarcasmo social. Es en Londres donde empieza a producir sus primeras obras de éxito, como su reconocida novela x{0026}lt;I El retrato de Dorian Grayx{0026}lt;/I (1890) o, en teatro, x{0026}lt;I El abanico de Lady Windermerx{0026}lt;/I (1892), x{0026}lt;I Salomé x{0026}lt;/I (1894) -que fue censurada por retratar personajes bíblicos-, o x{0026}lt;I La importancia de llamarse Ernestox{0026}lt;/I (1895), divertida comedia que ha sido llevada al cine en diversas ocasiones. Entre los años 1887-1889 editó la revista femenina x{0026}lt;I Woman's Worldx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P