File on Wilde / compiled by Margery Morgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Margery, compiler.

Series:

Writer-files

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Wilde, Oscar.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Stage history.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, 1990.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Writer Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1856. In the years following his graduation from Oxford in 1878 he published poems and stories which included The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lady Windermere''s Fan was produced in 1892, A Woman of No Importance in 1893 and An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895. Later work included De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He died in 1900. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer''s plays, with a detailed perfo.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; General Editor''s Introduction; 1: A Brief Chronology; 2: The Plays; a: Stage Plays; Vera, or The Nihilists; The Duchess of Padua; Salomé; Lady Windermere''s Fan; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; b: Incomplete Plays; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane; A Wife''s Tragedy; c: Scenarios and Adaptations; The Cardinal of Avignon; Mr. and Mrs. Daventry; The Critic as Artist; 3: Non-Dramatic Writings; 4: The Writer on His Work; 5: A Select Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: File on Wilde.

ISBN:

9781408149102

1408149109

9781408161760

1408161761

1408149117

9781408149119

OCLC:

874160675

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license