by Oscar Wilde (Author), Nicholas Frankel (Author)
The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 288
Edition: annotated edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 23 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 0674048989
ISBN 13: 9780674048980