Name: The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (Warbler Press)
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Author: Wilde, Oscar ; Baer, Ulrich
ISBN: 9781735515120

portada The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (Warbler Press)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oscar Wilde

Epilogue by

Ulrich Baer

Publisher

Warbler Press Inc.

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

107

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN13

9781735515120

Synopsis "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (Warbler Press)"

Often considered the wittiest play in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest has thrilled audiences for nearly one hundred and fifty years with undiminished sparkle, wit, and bite. Many of Wilde’s famous epigrams are uttered by the memorable characters in this comedy of mistaken identities. But the perfectly phrased social satire packs a velvet-gloved punch. Can we break with the hypocrisies of respectable society to reveal our authentic selves and find happiness? This elegant new edition includes a timeline of Wilde’s life, and Ulrich Baer’s accessible introduction that identifies the play’s major themes and its relevance for twenty-first century audiences, along with commentary by George Bernard Shaw and Mary McCarthy.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet, novelist, critic and playwright who rose to global fame in the 1880s as a larger-than-life public persona through his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his enormously popular social comedies, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere’s Fan. After two sensational trials he was sentenced to two years of hard labor in prison for having relations with men, which ruined his reputation and career. Today Wilde is celebrated as a courageous crusader for free expression, queer love, and anyone oppressed by hypocritical conventions.Ulrich Baer holds a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Yale. A widely published author, he is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He is the author of books on poetry, photography, and cultural politics, and the editor and translator of Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. He hosts leading writers and artists in talks about big ideas on the Think About It podcast. In the Warbler Press Contemplations series, he has published: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson, Wilde, and Shakespeare on Love.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde es considerado uno de los dramaturgos más destacados del Londres victoriano tardío. Además, fue una celebridad de la época debido a su gran y aguzado ingenio. Hoy en día, es recordado por sus epigramas, sus cuentos, sus obras de teatro, su única novela, El retrato de Dorian Gray, y la tragedia de su encarcelamiento, seguida de su muerte prematura.

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