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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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This collection of plays by Oscar Wilde includes three of his most famous plays including The Importance of Being Earnest, a three-act play that highlights the double standards prevalent in British society at the time. In the second play, Lady Windermere's fan, a four-act comedy, Wilde introduces us to a modernist take on the proper behavior expected of women in the Victorian times. The play centres around Lady Windermere and her suspicion of her husband's interest in an older woman, who ends up saving the much younger lady from ruin by sacrificing herself.
In the last play, A Woman of No importance, Wilde parodies the English upper-middle-class society. This four-act play, first performed in 1983, opens with a set of people gossiping and continues on with its characters offering opinions on the accepted behaviour of men and women, and their disdain for puritans.

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Series Title

Collected works of Oscar Wilde

Call Number

822 WIL i

Publisher

Mumbai - India : Wilco International., 2023

Collation

13 x 20 cm.: 265 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9788119172566

Classification

822 WIL i

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The Importance of Being Earnest and other plays

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Pluit putri library

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Oscar Wilde

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