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【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...
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...
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 ...
圖書標籤: OscarWilde 英國文學 英國 Wilde 王爾德 戲劇 英文原版 劇本
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
評分我對他的喜劇好沒愛呀……
評分王爾德好多話都通過自己戲劇來說 溫夫人很經典
評分Deeply obsessed with his epigrams.
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載