The Importance Of Being Earnest - And Other Plays

Oscar Wilde

Penguin Classics

2003

464 páginas

15h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780140436068

‘To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness’

The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Manners and morality are also victims of Wilde’s sharp wit in Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, in which snobbery and hypocrisy are laid bare. In Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde makes powerful use of historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde’s delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveal the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzlingly and precarious part.

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engraçado com situações absurdas, deve ser bacana de assistir no teatro. muitas falas lembram o Lord Henry de Dorian Gray