The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde author Michael Patrick Gillespie editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:17th Jan '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. "Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw’s famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F.
"Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
ISBN: 9780393927535
Dimensions: 213mm x 130mm x 13mm
Weight: 223g
224 pages
Critical edition