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.
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 .
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The balance of the piece is astounding. Characters developing, setting construction and plot unfolding, all of which present the perfect juxtapositions of two ends of everything: affluence and scarcity, wittiness and dullness, embrace and hostility, and of ...
評分The balance of the piece is astounding. Characters developing, setting construction and plot unfolding, all of which present the perfect juxtapositions of two ends of everything: affluence and scarcity, wittiness and dullness, embrace and hostility, and of ...
評分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’...
評分The balance of the piece is astounding. Characters developing, setting construction and plot unfolding, all of which present the perfect juxtapositions of two ends of everything: affluence and scarcity, wittiness and dullness, embrace and hostility, and of ...
評分王爾德算不上一個好的劇作傢,恩。比如這部the importance of being earnest,無論男女、老少、主僕,十來號人說起話來都是一個調調,我暈~~ 一樣伶牙俐齒,玩世不恭,每個人的嘴裏都時不時冒齣幾句王氏招牌悖論,害得我老覺得是王爾德一人分飾多角自言自語瞭三幕!自負機智詼...
圖書標籤: OscarWilde 英國文學 英國 Wilde 王爾德 戲劇 英文原版 劇本
王爾德好多話都通過自己戲劇來說 溫夫人很經典
評分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.
評分居然在這幾天的齣租車路上加今天去培訓的大巴上看完瞭。。。
評分非常喜歡王爾德,非常喜歡。王爾德最最吸引我的不是簡練詼諧的語言,也不是淒美的童話,而是他超前的文藝觀。對,我就是在說唯美主義運動。他的喜劇不是西方傳統的喜劇。觀眾/讀者無法對他筆下的人物進行簡單的道德判斷,人們會對這些人物的行為予以深刻反思和多重評價,而不會對這一形象進行簡單粗暴的道德批判。王爾德的戲劇作品(特彆是喜劇)顛覆瞭傳統二元對立的思維模式,這纔是我非常喜歡他的重要原因。大二的時候在課上看過他的社論The Soul of Man under Socialism,上學期看瞭他的文藝論文The Critic as Artist,單看語言我真的很難相信王爾德竟然活在19世紀,profound but not obscure,他簡直是愛爾蘭的白居易。
評分The Importance of Being Earnest好有趣啊。塑造一個不存在的形象當不想做某事情的時候就推卸給那個人,哈哈。最有趣的是你所有虛假的假設最後都成真瞭。
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載