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    <partNumber>Vol.2 An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest</partNumber>
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    <publisher>Wordsworth Editions Limited</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1997</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
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  <tableOfContents>An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Ernest both ran simultaneously to packed houses until Oscar Wilde ewas arrested on charges of practising homosexuality in April 1895. Since then the plays have never failed to delight audiences, and are a lasting testimony to their author's wit and theatrical genius.  
Treachery, blackmail, theft, and above all, self-interest abund in An Ideal Husbaund, the first drawing-room comedy to address political sleaze. In Wilde's more light-hearted mastepiece, The Importance of Being Ernest, nothing is sacred. Wilde's dazzling barbed epigrams are directed at all thet English high-society holds dear. "The only pure verbal opera in English (WH Auden), this play presents some of the most celebrated comic scenes in English drama.
Un marido ideal y La importancia de ser Ernest se presentaron simultáneamente en salas repletas hasta que Oscar Wilde fue arrestado acusado de practicar la homosexualidad en abril de 1895. Desde entonces, las obras nunca han dejado de deleitar al público y son un testimonio duradero del ingenio y la sabiduría de su autor y genio teatral.
La traición, el chantaje, el robo y, sobre todo, el interés propio abundan en An Ideal Husbaund, la primera comedia de salón que aborda la sordidez política. En la obra maestra más alegre de Wilde, La importancia de ser Ernest, nada es sagrado. Los deslumbrantes epigramas punzantes de Wilde están dirigidos a todo lo que la alta sociedad inglesa aprecia. "La única ópera puramente verbal en inglés (WH Auden), esta obra presenta algunas de las escenas cómicas más famosas del drama inglés.</tableOfContents>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Oscar Wilde.</note>
  <note>Wilde, O. (1997). The plays of Oscar Wilde. Vol.2 An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. (1st ed.). Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions Limited.</note>
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