The Importance of Being Earnest and ➕ Other Plays ▶️

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✅ Oscar Wilde was already one 1️⃣ of the best known literary figures in Britain when he best 💡 literary figures in ​🇬🇧​ when 👤👨 was persuaded to turn his 👤👨⬅️ extraordinary talents to the theatre 🎭️. Between 1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣1️⃣ and ➕ 1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣5️⃣ he 👤👨 produced a sequence of distinctive plays ▶️ which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1️⃣8️⃣9️⃣0️⃣s and ➕ retain their power today.
The social comedies, Lady 👤👩 Windermeres Fan, A Woman 👤👩 of No Importance, and ➕ An Ideal Husband, offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and ➕ its morals, with a sharp 📌🗡️ focus on sexual politics. By contrast, the experimental 🥼, symbolist Salome, written 🖋️ originally in French ​🇫🇷​, was banned for public performance 🎭️ by the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 censor. His 👤👨⬅️ final dramatic triumph 😤 was his 👤👨⬅️ `trivial comedy for serious people 👥, The Importance of Being Earnest arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.
Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays ▶️ have been newly edited and ➕ are presented 🎁 with modernized spelling and ➕ punctuation ❣️. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and ➕ detailed annotation.

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