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This book will serve the undergraduate, general reader, and scholar. Gladden’s introduction is provocative and the ancillary materials are especially welcome. Gladden balances familiar with unexpected contemporary works—from Gilbert and Sullivan to Ada Leverson, playbills to reviews, poems to pictures, conduct manuals to dandy tracts—plus excerpts of Wilde’s writings, including an earlier version of the play. Bibliography and chronology complete the presentation as one-stop shopping for an earnest acquaintance with Wilde’s charmer as social text.”  \nFrederick S. Roden, University of Connecticut  \n“Broadview’s Importance of Being Earnest carries on the press’s excellent series of texts for general readers and students alike. Samuel Lyndon Gladden presents the three-act text, as well as an appendix with important scenes and lines from the original four-act version. The volume includes many useful annotations and glosses, appendices with contextual information, illustrations, and extracts from letters and documents that will enhance understanding and interpretation of the play. The introduction places the play in up-to-date critical and biographical contexts, illuminating issues without closing down other approaches to making sense of Wilde’s carefully composed dramatic nonsense.”  \nPhilip E. Smith, University of Pittsburgh  \nThe Importance of Being Earnest marks a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a Modern consciousness. Wilde’s play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly, but ended its initial run as a harbinger of Wilde’s personal downfall when Wilde’s lover ’s father, who would later bring about Wilde’s arrest and imprisonment, attempted to disrupt the production.  \nIn addition to its focus on the textual history of the play, this Broadview Edition of Earnest provides a wide array of appendices. The edition locates Wilde’s work among the artistic and cultural contexts of the late nineteenth century and will provide scholars, students, and general readers with an important sourcebook for the play and the social, creative, and critical contexts of mid-1890s English life.  \nSamuel Lyndon Gladden is Associate Professor,  \nCoordinator of Graduate Studies in English, and Dean’s Faculty Administrative Fellow for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Northern Iowa.  \nCover: Tintype, ca. 1885. Photographer uknown. [www. broad view press. com](www. broad view press. com)  \nThis electronic material is under copyright protection and is  \nprovided to a single recipient  \nfor review purposes only.  \nTHE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST  \nbroadview editions series editor: L.W. Conolly  \nReview Copy  \nOscar Wilde, 1882 . Photograph by Napoleon Sarony.  \nReview Copy  \nTHE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST A Trivial Comedy for  \nSerious People  \nOscar Wilde  \nedited by Samuel Lyndon Gladden  \nbroadview editions  \nReview Copy  \n© 2010 Samuel Lyndon Gladden  \nAll rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher—or in the case of photocopying, a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), One Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1E5—is an infringement of the copyright law.  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication  \nWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900  \nThe importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people / Oscar Wilde ; edited by Samuel Lyndon Gladden.  \n(Broadview editions)  \nIncludes bibliographical reference","cbCaineBM1z4LXfl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaineBM1z4LXfl","pdf",10866936,226,"English","# Acknowledgements\n# Introduction\n## Oscar Wilde: A Brief Chronology\n## A Note on the Text","[{\"question\":\"What does Samuel Lyndon Gladden add to this Broadview edition?\",\"answer\":\"Gladden provides a provocative introduction and supporting ancillary materials, including contextual excerpts and an earlier version of the play.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the play presented in this edition?\",\"answer\":\"The volume includes the three-act text and an appendix featuring important scenes and lines from the original four-act version.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of supporting materials are included beyond the main text?\",\"answer\":\"The edition includes annotations and glosses, illustrations, and appendices with contextual information, extracts from letters, and related documents.\"}]","The Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Broadview Edition | PDF",1789949960,348]