The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde author Michael Patrick Gillespie editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:17th Jan '06

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"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