{"product_id":"9780140436068-the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-other-plays","title":"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncludes plays such as \"Lady Windermere's Fan\", \"Salome\", \"A Woman of No Importance\", \"An Ideal Husband\", \"A Florentine Tragedy\" and \"The Importance of Being Earnest\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLady Windermere's Fan\/Salomé\/A Woman of No Importance\/An Ideal Husband\/A Florentine Tragedy\/The Importance of Being Earnest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose \u003ci\u003eboth\u003c\/i\u003e looks like carelessness'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare in \u003ci\u003eLady Windermere's Fan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Woman of No Importance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Ideal Husband\u003c\/i\u003e, while in \u003ci\u003eSalomé\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Florentine Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Wilde uses historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretensions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited with Introduction, Commentaries and Notes by Richard Allen Cave\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56592348709238,"sku":"9780140436068","price":8.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32416496.jpg?v=1762260073","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780140436068-the-importance-of-being-earnest-and-other-plays","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}