The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty.

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:Oscar Wilde

页数:464

译者:Cave, Richard Allen 注解

出版时间:2001-03-01

价格:USD 12.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140436068

图书标签:OscarWilde英国文学英国Wilde王尔德戏剧英文原版剧本

Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and staging, Wilde created an enduring body of finely crafted works, whose delights and ironies still speak to modern audiences. In addition to Lady Windermere's Fan , Salomé , A Woman of No Importance , An Ideal Husband , A Florentine Tragedy , and The Importance of Being Earnest , this edition contains an introduction, notes and commentaries, and an excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest .

读后感

王尔德算不上一个好的剧作家，恩。比如这部the importance of being earnest，无论男女、老少、主仆，十来号人说起话来都是一个调调，我晕~~ 一样伶牙俐齿，玩世不恭，每个人的嘴里都时不时冒出几句王氏招牌悖论，害得我老觉得是王尔德一人分饰多角自言自语了三幕！自负机智诙...  

【Spoilers Alert】 Jack Worthing - used as an instrument to represent the upperclass ideals of duty and responsibility. However lives a double life in the city as Ernest to escape from his duties, which reveals the hypocrisy of upperclass Victorians. Alger...  

【Spoilers Alert】 Jack Worthing - used as an instrument to represent the upperclass ideals of duty and responsibility. However lives a double life in the city as Ernest to escape from his duties, which reveals the hypocrisy of upperclass Victorians. Alger...  

As a treasure in literature, this play has enduring attraction. It’s a topic of interest among critics. As far as this play is concerned, sociological perspective is efficient, for there are many coincidences between the author’s life and the characters’...

王尔德算不上一个好的剧作家，恩。比如这部the importance of being earnest，无论男女、老少、主仆，十来号人说起话来都是一个调调，我晕~~ 一样伶牙俐齿，玩世不恭，每个人的嘴里都时不时冒出几句王氏招牌悖论，害得我老觉得是王尔德一人分饰多角自言自语了三幕！自负机智诙...  

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

to save you from the abyss into which you are falling, there is nothing in the world i would not dare, nothing in the whole world.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Deeply obsessed with his epigrams.

非常喜欢王尔德，非常喜欢。王尔德最最吸引我的不是简练诙谐的语言，也不是凄美的童话，而是他超前的文艺观。对，我就是在说唯美主义运动。他的喜剧不是西方传统的喜剧。观众/读者无法对他笔下的人物进行简单的道德判断，人们会对这些人物的行为予以深刻反思和多重评价，而不会对这一形象进行简单粗暴的道德批判。王尔德的戏剧作品（特别是喜剧）颠覆了传统二元对立的思维模式，这才是我非常喜欢他的重要原因。大二的时候在课上看过他的社论The Soul of Man under Socialism，上学期看了他的文艺论文The Critic as Artist，单看语言我真的很难相信王尔德竟然活在19世纪，profound but not obscure，他简直是爱尔兰的白居易。