Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy era to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. This edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention and which reveal the author's persistent yearning towards more serious drama.
Wilde's plays have neve failed to delight audiences and are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit and theatrical genius.
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ALGERNON: I hope tomorrow will be a fine day, Lane.
LANE: It never is, sir.
ALGERNON: Lane, you’re a perfect pessimist.
LANE: I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
381. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
LADY BRACKNELL: […] Do you smoke?
JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.
LADY BRACKNELL: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
375. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
ALGERNON: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
LANE: I don't think it polite to listen, sir.
363. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
LANE: […] I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.
ANGERNON: Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?
363. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.
365. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.
366. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
She will place me next Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent…
369. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
375. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
JACK: Oh! one doesn’t blurt these things out to people. Cecily and Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great friends. I’ll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
ALGERNON: Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
379. oldal, The Importance of Being Earnest
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