The plays of Oscar Wilde -

Oscar Wilde

collins

2011

369 páginas

12h 18m

ISBN-13: 9780007902224

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of the sexual politics of the time.

Resenhas (2)

4 (Muito bom)

Parts of the plays

"I see when men love women
They give them but a little of their lives,
But women when they love give evething." (P. 99 The Duches of Padua)

"Sweet, it was not yourself,
It was some devil tempted you.
[...] No, no
We are each our own devil, and we make
This world our hell." (P. 125 The Duchess of Padua)

"[...] I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a great deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands." (p.187 Lady Windermere's Fan)

"When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also." (P. 249 A woman of no importance).

"[...] but when we men love women, we love them knowing their weakness, their follies, their imperfections, love them all the more, it may be, for that reasonn it is not the perfect, but imperfect, who need of love. [...] that love should come to cure us - else what use is love t all? All sins, except a sin against itself, love should forgive. (P. 325 An ideal husband)