The Importance of Being Earnest: A Norton Critical Edition

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Norton Critical Edition
Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Published
26 August 2022
Pages
224
ISBN
9780393421972

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Norton Critical Edition

Oscar Wilde

Backgrounds includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Karl Beckson, Sharon Marcus, and Michael Patrick Gillespie. Early Reviews and Reactions collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, including George Bernard Shaw’s famous dissenting review and other commentary by H. G. Wells, Hamilton Fyfe, and William Archer.

Essays in Criticism includes seven diverse assessments-six of them new to the Second Edition-of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Burkhard Niederhoff, Christopher S. Nassaar, Clifton Snider, Brigitte Bastiat, Eibhear Walshe, and Maneck H. Daruwala.

A chronology and selected bibliography are also included

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