Wilde's EARNEST: A Century and More of Critical Commentary
About This Book
Anticipating a memorable evening in the theatre, the London press sent a full complement of reviewers to the first night of what promised to be the crowning work of Oscar Wilde’s career as a dramatist. Many of them attended the opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest, at the St James’s Theatre in King Street, St James’s, on 14 February 1895, while others attended subsequent performances. The lessee and manager of the St. James’s, George Alexander, now in his fourth year of professional
| Category | general |
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| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 7 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Anticipating a memorable evening in the theatre, the London press sent a full co
- In the period following Wilde’s death in November 1900, Robert Ross, his faithfu
- Surveying the mounting of productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and the
- James Agate’s response to Gielgud’s 1930 production is all the more curious and
- Oscar Wilde as dandy has become by now a familiar theme, both in biographies and
- As we have seen, the publication of facsimiles of Wilde’s manuscripts of The Imp
- Periodicals