The importance of being Earnest

The established three-act version, with excised portions of the once four-act play included in the appendix. Annotations and preface by Michael Patrick Gillespie. Background materials on London in the 1890s, Wilde and his idea of theater, and creating an audience. Contemporary reviews by George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and others along with seven wide-ranging critical essays. A Bibliography and a Chronology of Wilde's life and work.