TY - BOOK AU - Wilde, Oscar AU - Raby, Peter, ed. TI - Lady Windermere's fan, Salome, A women of no importance, An ideal husband, The importance of being earnest T2 - Oxford World`s Classics SN - 0192834444 U1 - 822.8 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English Literature KW - English Drama KW - Power (Social sciences) in literature KW - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 KW - Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 KW - International law N2 - 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. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation ER -