Oscar Wilde (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Oscar Wilde wrote a number of plays produced successfully in his lifetime: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (1895). Banned in London, his play Salomé was produced in 1893 in Paris with Sarah Bernhardt. Two plays, Vera: Or, The Nihilists (1880) and The Duchess of Padua (1883), were produced in New York after publication in England. Finally, two plays, A Florentine Tragedy...

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