This unique volume reconstructs the original 1895 production of Wilde's timeless classic. Based upon a new, reconstructive method for the study of theatrical performance that aims to set the play securely in its historical and cultural moment, the edition offers a wealth of detail about the staging and acting and numerous first production and early revival photographs. The reconstructed text itself, differing in important ways from the 1899 first edition, recaptures the essential comic vitality of the play.
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On a snowy Thursday evening in February 1895, a fashionable London audience braved the frigid weather to make their way to the St. James's Theatre in King Street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opening night text, reconstructive edition, first production text, licensing copy, one law for men, trivial comedy, repentance wipe, green carnation, notebook dating, proposal scene, eating muffins, farcical comedy, acting edition, plate stand, pencil cuts, been emended, opening night performance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism, Reconstructive Critical Edition, Oscar Wilde, George Alexander, Irene Vanbrugh, British Library, Aunt Augusta, Uncle Jack, New York, Doctor Chasuble, Ideal Husband, Rose Leclercq, Lady Brancaster, Miss Cardew, Miss Fairfax, Allan Aynesworth, Evelyn Millard, Dramatic Notes, James's Theatre, Robert Ross, Alfred Ellis, Lady Windermere's Fan, Primrose Hill, Ada Leverson New!
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On a snowy Thursday evening in February 1895, a fashionable London audience braved the frigid weather to make their way to the St. James's Theatre in King Street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opening night text, reconstructive edition, first production text, licensing copy, one law for men, trivial comedy, repentance wipe, green carnation, notebook dating, proposal scene, eating muffins, farcical comedy, acting edition, plate stand, pencil cuts, been emended, opening night performance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism, Reconstructive Critical Edition, Oscar Wilde, George Alexander, Irene Vanbrugh, British Library, Aunt Augusta, Uncle Jack, New York, Doctor Chasuble, Ideal Husband, Rose Leclercq, Lady Brancaster, Miss Cardew, Miss Fairfax, Allan Aynesworth, Evelyn Millard, Dramatic Notes, James's Theatre, Robert Ross, Alfred Ellis, Lady Windermere's Fan, Primrose Hill, Ada Leverson New!
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- The Importance of Being Earnest with Connections by Oscar Wilde on 28 pages
- Oscar Wilde's the Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition by Oscar Wilde on 28 pages
- The Importance of Being Earnest (Penguin Student Editions) by Oscar Wilde on 15 pages
- The London Stage 1890-1899 by J. P. Wearing on 14 pages
- An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde on 12 pages
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