Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of "Lady Windermere`s Fan", "A Woman of No Importance", "Salome", "An Ideal Husband", and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, "The Importance of Being Earnest".
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Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare`s "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script.
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding`s greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding`s emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough Notes, Maps, and Bibliography.
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
