Book description
This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form Wilde's
masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual
three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from
the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem
plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal
Husband, as well as his once-banned Salome and several other
little-known but fascinating dramas. H. Montgomery Hyde, an acknowledged
expert on Wilde and author of several books on him, provides an
introduction to Wilde's life and work with special attention to the
composition and performance of the plays."Wilde is to me our only
thorough playwright. He plays with everything: with wit, with
philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole
theatre" (George Bernard Shaw)
