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The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play’s relation to the author’s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde’s imprisonment just months after the play’s London opening in 1895.

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[This] edition admirably achieves its stated aim to enlarge the understanding and pleasure of readers and students of Wilde’s most perfect, most studied, and most frequently performed play. -- John Sloan * The Wildean *
Frankel’s command of all the relevant materials—textual, literary-critical, historical, biographical—is impressive, and he puts that knowledge to splendid use in The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest. -- Stephen Arata, University of Virginia
An excellent edition with new insights and superb annotations that continues Frankel’s lively and important work on Wilde. -- Linda Peterson, Yale University

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 23 February 2015
      ISBN-13 9780674048980
      978-0674048980
      ISBN-10 0674048989
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books by Oscar Wilde

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play’s relation to the author’s homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde’s imprisonment just months after the play’s London opening in 1895.

      Trade Review
      [This] edition admirably achieves its stated aim to enlarge the understanding and pleasure of readers and students of Wilde’s most perfect, most studied, and most frequently performed play. -- John Sloan * The Wildean *
      Frankel’s command of all the relevant materials—textual, literary-critical, historical, biographical—is impressive, and he puts that knowledge to splendid use in The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest. -- Stephen Arata, University of Virginia
      An excellent edition with new insights and superb annotations that continues Frankel’s lively and important work on Wilde. -- Linda Peterson, Yale University

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