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Oscar Wilde's society plays

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Oscar Wilde's society plays

[Book]

edited by Michael Y. Bennett.

New York

Palgrave Macmillan

2015. ©2015

(vi, 212 pages)

Wit in earnest: Wilde's Irish word-play / Jerusha McCormack --;The tragicomedies of Oscar Wilde: a Wilde response to melodrama / Michael Y. Bennett --;Oscar Wilde's unfinished society plays: Mr. and Mrs. Daventry, A Wife's Tragedy, and Love Is Law / Joseph Bristow --;Wilde's comedic takes on the new woman: a comparison with Ibsen and Shaw / Petra Dierkes-Thrun --;Three comedies and a funeral: the endgame of The Importance of Being Earnest / Melissa Knox --;Deconstructive strategies in Wilde's social comedies: from melodrama to deconstruction / Steven Price --;Earnest in name, but how earnest in manner?: acting in Wilde's comedy / Richard Allen Cave --;"Would you kindly inform me who I am?": Wilde's comedies of manners as tragedies / Helena Gurfinkel --;"You will call me sister, will you not?": friendship, solidarity, and conflict between women in Wilde's society plays / Helen Davies --;Modern ontologics and the Impotence of Being Earnest / S.I. Salamensky.

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.

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

edited by Michael Y. Bennett.

Michael Y Bennett

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