The importance of being earnest : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism

Résumé

Collection : A Norton critical edition Comprend : The text of The importance of being Earnest ; Excised portions of the play ; Backgrounds ; London in the 1890s / Karl Beckson ; Wilde and the idea of a theatre / Joseph Donohue ; Creating the audience / Regenia Gagnier ; Criticism ; Reviews and reactions ; On The importance of being Earnest / William Archer ; On The importance of being Earnest / H.F. ; On The importance of being Earnest / George Bernard Shaw ; On The importance of being Earnest / H.G. Wells ; Essays in criticism ; The four-act version of The importance of being Earnest / E.H. Mikhail ; From faltering arrow to pistol shot : The importance of being Earnest / Eva Thienpont ; Oscar Wilde and the English epicene / Camille A. Paglia ; Alias Bunbury : desire and termination in The importance of being Earnest / Christopher Craft ; From Beau Brummell to Lady Bracknell : re-viewing the Dandy in The importance of being Earnest / Michael Patrick Gillespie ; The genesis of the play / Peter Raby ; Oscar Wilde and the imagination of the Celt / Richard Haslam ; Oscar Wilde : a chronology.