Plays
Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
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This Penguin collection contains Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays. He himself described Lady Windermere's Fan his first great stage success, as 'one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades'. Its combination of polished social drama and corruscatingly witty dialogue was repeated in A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband both of which were enthusiastically received by the public but savaged, much to Wilde's delight, by affronted critics. His greatest play, The Importance of Being Earnest was first produced in 1895. Wilde wrote of it: 'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy . . . that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all of the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality'.
This volume also includes Lord Alfred Douglas's translation of Salomé a short drama which Wilde wrote in French.
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Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; Salomé
December 30, 1954, Penguin Books
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in English
0140480161 9780140480160
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In Penguin Books The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan were first published (together) in 1940;
Salomé, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband (the three together) in 1948
The five plays first published in one volume 1954
Reprinted 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
Set in Monotype Bembo
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