The plays of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Classics) -

Oscar Wilde

Wordsworth Classics

2002

446 páginas

14h 52m

ISBN-14: 9781840224184_

Introduction and notes by Anne Varty.
Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.

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)