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Synopsis
Wilde's drama engages issues which are of immediate importance in modern culture and his stylish manner is calculated to permit a degree of detachment necessary when handling socially and politically explosive issues. The introduction sets the play in its historical, social and theatrical context.
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About the Author
Russell Jackson is a Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.
Review
An ideal Christmas play and a play for all seasons. Sunday Times, John Peter, 23/12/2007 'Hugely entertaining, a curious mixture of melodrama, Wilde's distinctinve epigrammatic wit and sudden moments of deeper feeling' Daily Telegraph - Charles Spencer, 11.11.10 'Oscar Wilde's ability to satirise the hollowness of our social and political life remains remarkably undimmed... it resonates with a loud topical ring considering the various antic today's MPs have been up to when filling out their expense sheets' Daily Express - Paul Callan, 12.11.10 'Energetically entertaining - a glossy melodrama...studded with smart lines and, more surprisingly, imbued with humanity' Evening Standard - Henry Hitchings, 12.11.10 'A shrewd depiction of naked ambition and a serious debate about what really constitutes goodness' Financial Times - Sarah Hemming, 12.11.10 'A masterwork of good-humoured, charitable insight into human frailty' Independent - Paul Taylor, 12.11.10 'A play which smuggles subtlety in under farce and melodrama' Observer - Susannah Clapp, 14.11.10 'A fascinating, psychologically penetrating study of the pursuit of power and the cost of success... A work that shows Wilde at his most wittily serious and subversively moral' Sunday Times - Christopher Hart, 14.11.10 'a play that flirts with melodrama. dabbles with farce and in which the emotionally remote upper classes are brought down to earth' Jewish Chronicle - John Nathan, 19.11.10 'An Ideal Husband' fizzes with wit, reverence and daring' Sunday Express - Mark Shenton, 21.11.10
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- PublisherA & C Black
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0713637897
- ISBN 13 9780713637892
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages208
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