The importance of being earnest : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism

Wilde, Oscar 1854-19002006

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Part of the Norton Critical Editions series, edited by Michael Patrick Gillespie. In addition to the three-act play, a satire on Victorian society and subtitled ''A trivial comedy for serious people' which the publication commences with, there are also critical essays and background information. The section 'Backgrounds' covers Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson. The section 'Criticism - Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to 'The Importance of Being Earnest 'among them George Bernard Shaw’s famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" section includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Eva Thienpont, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam. The publication concludes with a chronology and selected bibliography.