The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume IX Plays 2: Lady Lancing; Volume X Plays 3: The Importance of Being Earnest

ISBN-13: 9780198119586 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 1248 str.

Joseph Donohue

Opis

This authoritative 2-volume edition presents two of Oscar Wilde's plays, Lady Lancing and The Importance of Being Earnest, and explores the complex early history of these separate but closely related compositions. It also includes a reconstructed edition of Wilde's dramatic fragment, A Wife's Tragedy, based on a single undated manuscript.

Recenzje

The two latest volumes in Oxford University Press's ongoing Complete Works of Oscar Wilde are both devoted to the play, and they reveal, in fascinating detail, just how that perfection was achieved. ... The editor of both volumes, Joseph Donohue, charts the evolution of the one, and its development into the other, in his brilliantly thorough introductory chapters, copious notes and numerous appendices. Matthew Sturgis, Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Joseph Donohue is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught dramatic literature from 1971 to 2005. He is a theatre historian and editor and scholar of dramatic text. Author and editor of numerous books, articles, and reference works, he has published a prize-winning annotated edition of the reconstructed first-production text of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and a translation into English of Wilde's original French-language Salome. His professional accomplishments include the presidency of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), senior fellowships or fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, his ten-year editorship of the journal Nineteenth Century Theatre, and awards from the ASTR and the Modern Language Association of America.