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Title: The Importance of Being Ernest (Longman Study Texts) by Oscar Wilde, Robert Wilson, Michael Billington, Richard Adams ISBN: 0-582-33134-X Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom Pub. Date: September, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hip-hip-hooray
Comment: Perhaps it is my unique sense of humor, but I found this book incredibly funny. I wasn't rolling on the floor or anything, but it is funny in an Oscar Wilde way. My personal favorite is The Importance of Being Earnest, although all the others are very good also. Get this book. There are great quotes and good characters.
Rating: 5
Summary: The importance of reading these plays!
Comment: While Oscar Wilde is not Shakespeare unarguably the best playwright, he is incredibly good and all three plays show it. Salome is a short 'biblical' play, Lady Windermere's Fan is a bit longer and with the exception of the naivete suffered by the Lady of the title incredibly well written as well. However, The Importance of Being Earnest is by far the best play in this collection. Two men whom are trying to get away with pulling a fast one on their girlfriends and two women who think they know whats going on. Throw in a misplaced bag with a baby inside, an overbearing British matriarch, and a Governess with a past and you have a laugh out loud comedy. Who knew the British could be so funny...when written about anyway.
Rating: 4
Summary: It Is Impotant To Be Earnest
Comment: I had no knowledge of Oscar Wilde and had only seen ten minutes of the movie, The Importance of Being Earnest, as I flipped through the cable channels on my television. However, due to a class that I am enrolled in, not only do I now know who he is but I am blessed to have been introduced to his work.
The Importance of Being Earnest, makes a very humorous yet profound commentary on money, marriage, status and image as it pertains to the aristocracy of that time. It seems that Oscar Wilde utilized this medium of artistic expression to cleverly expose the twisted way that those with wealth perceived themselves and the lengths they would go to the preserve that perception. It has been referred to as a "comedy of manners" because so much of what defined or distinguished the aristocracy from the common man was not necessarily the wealth that they actually had but what men and women did to appear like they had it.
Ernest, who is the main character in the play, has done all of what is necessary to appear as though he comes from wealth. He wears the clothing, keeps the company and talks the talk of the aristocrat. However what he soon finds out is that all of those whom he is trying to impress and fit in with, have more unresolved issues in their closet than he does. I believe Wilde addresses this social paradox with impeccable wit and an amazing sense of human psychology. He not only challenged those who belonged to the aristocracy to examine what they placed value in, but continues to challenge each reader today, that these superficial values might not stand as valuable at all.
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Title: Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/the Philanderer/Mrs Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, George Bernard Shaw, David Edgar ISBN: 0140437932 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sense and Sensibility (Norton Critical Editions) by Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson ISBN: 039397751X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner ISBN: 0192825674 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130348 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, W. J. McCormack, Bernard Shaw ISBN: 0140437940 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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