File on Wilde

by Morgan, Margery M.

• ISBN13: 9780413536303
• ISBN10: 0413536300
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-12-01
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Writer Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856. In the years following his graduation from Oxford in 1878 he published poems and stories which included The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lady Windermere's Fan was produced in 1892, A Woman of No Importance in 1893 and An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. Later work included De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He died in 1900.Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of the writers' own comments on their work.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introduction	p. 5
A Brief Chronology	p. 7
The plays
Stage Plays
Vera, or The Nihilists	p. 12
The Duchess of Padua	p. 15
Salome	p. 16
Lady Windermere's Fan	p. 24
A Woman of No Importance	p. 29
An Ideal Husband	p. 36
The Importance of Being Earnest	p. 40
Incomplete Plays
A Florentine Tragedy	p. 51
La Sainte Courtisane	p. 53
A Wife's Tragedy	p. 53
Scenarios and Adaptations
The Cardinal of Avignon	p. 54
Mr. and Mrs. Daventry	p. 54
The Critic as Artist	p. 55
Non-Dramatic Writings	p. 56
The Writer on His Work	p. 62
A Select Bibliography	p. 71
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