{"product_id":"the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-other-plays-oscar-wilde-9780140436068","title":"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncludes plays such as \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"Salome\", \"A Woman of No Importance\", \"An Ideal Husband\", \"A Florentine Tragedy\" and \"The Importance of Being Earnest\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOmschrijving\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLady Windermere's Fan\/Salome\/A Woman of No Importance\/An Ideal Husband\/A Florentine Tragedy\/The Importance of Being Earnest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e looks like carelessness'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare in \u003ci\u003eLady Windermere's Fan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Woman of No Importance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal Husband\u003c\/i\u003e, while in \u003ci\u003eSalome\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Florentine Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilde uses historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited with Introduction, Commentaries and Notes by Richard Allen Cave\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePromotionele informatie\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis reissue is designed to tie-in with the film version of \"The Importance of Being Earnest\" to be released nationwide from 30th August 2002. The film stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench and Reese Witherspoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProductspecificaties\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuteur:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oscar Wilde\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUitgever:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Books Ltd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eImprint:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Classics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBindwijze:\u003c\/strong\u003e B-format paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVerschijningsdatum:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2000-05-25\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAantal pagina's:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780140436068\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThema:\u003c\/strong\u003e Plays, playscripts, drama\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/strong\u003e DRAMA \/ General\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOver de auteur\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Ireland, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin \u0026amp; Oxford and went on to become the leading and most prominent exponent of flamboyant aestheticism. As well as his many plays, he wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), and published several volumes of poetry and criticism. He was imprisoned in 1895 for homosexual offences and after his release he died in exile in Paris. Richard Cave has edited a selection of Yeats' plays for Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intertaal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56354481668436,"sku":"9780140436068","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/0538\/0692\/files\/9780140436068.jpg?v=1783583077","url":"https:\/\/intertaalid.nl\/es\/products\/the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-other-plays-oscar-wilde-9780140436068","provider":"Intertaal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}