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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume XI Plays 4: Vera; or The Nihilist and Lady Windermere's Fan (Hardcover, 1)
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume XI Plays 4: Vera; or The Nihilist and Lady Windermere's Fan (Hardcover, 1)
Series: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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Volume IX in the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde brings together
Wilde's first performed play, Vera; or, The Nihilist, and his first
West End success, Lady Windermere's Fan. Two texts are provided for
each play: a reconstruction of the first performance text of each
work, based on marked-up scripts that were used during rehearsals,
and which are collated in the Textual Notes with all other extant
versions (including manuscripts, typescripts, and where relevant,
authoritative acting editions); as well as, for Vera, a complete
transcription of an early manuscript and manuscript fragment, and
for Lady Windermere's Fan, a reproduction of the familiar 1893
Bodley Head 'reading text' of the play. Also provided are two
lengthy Introductions to the plays describing the history of their
composition, staging, reception and (where relevant) publication,
and in which special attention is given to Wilde's relationships
with the actor-managers who starred in and produced these works:
Marie Prescott and George Alexander. Commentaries identify
references, allusions, and possible source materials Wilde drew
upon. A notable feature of the edition in this respect is the
attention given to a range of contemporary Nihilist-themed works,
fictional and non-fictional, to which Vera is compared, as well as
to the intricate codes of contemporary etiquette, upon which much
of the humour of Lady Windermere's Fan is reliant.
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