Importance of Being Earnest

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After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for me and another for women?

Wilde's 'trivial play for serious people', a sparkling comedy of manners, is the epitome of wit and style. This brilliantly constructed satire with its celebrated characters and much-quoted dialogue turns accepted ideas inside out and is generally regarded as Wilde's masterpiece.

This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Lucie Sutherland, Assistant Professor in Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK, which investigate the play through a contemporary lens, bringing in the contributions from queer scholarship and discussions of recent productions of the play.

Detaljer

Forlag: Methuen Drama
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN: 9781350141933
Utgave: 2. utg.
Utgivelsesår: 2022
Format: 20 x 13 cm

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«Comes as close to perfection as any comedy I can think of.»
Daily Telegraph

«Oscar Wilde's best-known work always had a claim to be the wittiest play in the English language.»
Financial Times

«There is a real need for an updated, student-focused edition of this much taught play.»
Jenny Stevens, author and series editor

«A fresh new edition of a theatrical favourite that fully evinces the contemporary appeal of Wildean theatre.»
Chris Megson, Reader in Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London

«The play isn’t going anywhere, and Lucie’s expertise and proposed coverage look ideally suited to ‘free up’ the play from the grip of English Literature study and debate, and give something that Drama teachers can meaningfully engage with.»
Matthew Nichols, Head of Drama at Manchester Grammar School, UK

Medlemmers vurdering

Luigi – 06.02.2006

– Dette skuespillet handler om to engelske gentlemen som begge kaller seg Earnest. Jack bor på landet og kaller seg Earnest mens han er byen, og Algernon bor i byen, og utgir seg for å være Jacks uansvarlige bror Earnest mens han er på landet. Han forelsker seg i Jacks unge niese, Cecily, mens Jack forelsker seg i den snobbete Gwendolen, noe Gwendolens mor ikke er overlykkelig over, spesielt siden Jack ikke vet hvem foreldrene sine er. Han ble nemlig funnet i en bag på en togstasjon som baby.
Et veldig vittig og underholdende stykke. Det sprudler av fantasi og humor, og man kan ikke unngå å bli revet med i galskapen. Wilde ironiserer over overklassen, og de treffende, gode replikkene gjør stykket utrolig morsomt.