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The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple," declares Algernon
early in Act One of The Importance of Being Earnest, and were it
either, modern literature would be "a complete impossibility." It
is a moment of sly, winking self-regard on the part of the
playwright, for The Importance is itself the sort of complex modern
literary work in which the truth is neither pure nor simple.
Wilde's greatest play is full of subtexts, disguises, concealments,
and double entendres. Continuing the important cultural work he
began in his award-winning uncensored edition of The Picture of
Dorian Gray, Nicholas Frankel shows that The Importance needs to be
understood in relation to its author's homosexuality and the
climate of sexual repression that led to his imprisonment just
months after it opened at London's St. James's Theatre on
Valentine's Day 1895. In a facing-page edition designed with
students, teachers, actors, and dramaturges in mind, The Annotated
Importance of Being Earnest provides running commentary on the play
to enhance understanding and enjoyment. The introductory essay and
notes illuminate literary, biographical, and historical allusions,
tying the play closely to its author's personal life and sexual
identity. Frankel reveals that many of the play's wittiest lines
were incorporated nearly four years after its first production,
when the author, living in Paris as an exiled and impoverished
criminal, oversaw publication of the first book edition. This newly
edited text is accompanied by numerous illustrations.
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