Oscar Wilde's society plays. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Y. Bennett.
• Editors: Bennett, Michael Y, 1980-
• Contents: Introduction: The Importance of Laughing in Earnest; Michael Y. Bennett; PART I: CONTEXTS; 1. Wit in Ernest: Wilde's Irish Word-Play; Jerusha McCormack; 2. The Tragicomedies of Oscar Wilde: A Wilde Response to Melodrama; Michael Y. Bennett; 3. Oscar Wilde's Unfinished Society Plays: <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Mr. and Mrs. Daventry, <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Wife's Tragedy, and <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Love Is Law ; Joseph Bristow; 4. Wilde's Comedic Takes on the New Woman: A Comparison with Ibsen and Shaw; Petra Dierkes-Thrun; 5. Three Comedies and a Funeral: The Endgame of <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Importance of Being Earnest ; Melissa Knox; PART II: TEXTS; 6. Deconstructive Strategies in Wilde's Social Comedies: From Melodrama to Deconstruction; Steven Price; 7. Earnest in Name, But How Earnest in Manner?: Acting in Wilde's Comedy; Richard Allen Cave; 8. ". . . Would You Kindly Inform Me Who I Am?": Wilde's Comedies of Manners as Tragedies; Helena Gurfinkel; 9. "You will call me sister, will you not?": Friendship, Solidarity, and Conflict between Women in Wilde's Society Plays; Helen Davies; 10. Modern Ontologics and the <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Impotence of Being Earnest; S. I. Salamensky
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, 1 illustration
• Subjects: 822.8; Theater/History & Criticism; Theater/Playwriting; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Theatre studies; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137410948; 1137410949
• Related ISBNs: 9781137410924
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.