»A Trivial Comedy for Serious People»: its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re-christened to obtain the Christian name — Earnest — his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband; he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune, and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity. This is the only one-volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wilde»s creative process.
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest [PDF ebook]
The Importance of Being Earnest [PDF ebook]
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Формат PDF ● страницы 176 ● ISBN 9781408145159 ● редактор Professor Russell Jackson ● издатель Bloomsbury Publishing ● опубликованный 2014 ● Загружаемые 6 раз ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 2936612 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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