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【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...
圖書標籤: OscarWilde 英國文學 英國 Wilde 王爾德 戲劇 英文原版 劇本
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。
評分最近收瞭本00年的黑白封麵版,感覺更有味道。溫夫人扇子及莎樂美(?記錯勿怪)餘光中譯過,頗得王爾德精髓。
評分裏麵我最喜歡的要屬An Ideal Husband瞭,這本書在床上斷斷續續看瞭2個星期。剛剛接觸戲劇,發現戲劇真的很有意思,比起小說更加直白與親切,不過想詩劇這類型的戲劇我看瞭還是有種雲裏霧裏的感覺,裏麵有一篇看得我很崩潰...王爾德的文字寫的很幽默,我也買瞭企鵝的The Picture of Dorian Gray,希望這學期結束前能把那本也看瞭。
評分終於全看完瞭!嗯,共同點是每一篇都妙語連珠!每篇都有一個主題。然後分開說,Lady Windermeres's Fan比較solid,Woman of no importance的大團圓結局不太喜歡,A ideal husband的Lord Goring很贊,兩個短篇非常詭異,結局都大愛!最後當然是The Importance of Being Earnest,我的老天這個超過前幾篇不是一個級彆,要笑到肚子痛,Wilde at his very best!順便說一下,他還是真喜歡夾帶私貨呢,尤其是他的古典學知識哈哈好,不過我很喜歡~
評分莎樂美那篇看得雲裏霧裏的,不過補習瞭常齣現在畫裏和歌劇裏的聖經故事。其他的講society的充滿瞭各種俏皮話,正說反說如他們所諷刺的一樣毫無意義。戲劇衝突倒還是挺有趣的。Earnest這個格外好笑,如同sketch show。
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載