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Milosavljević, Marija. "Gender role reversal, female solidarity, and fallen women in Oscar Wilde's plays." Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Pristini 51, no. 3 (2021): 227–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrffp51-30896.

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Wilde's plays The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan and Salomé all feature female characters and themes relevant to the domains of research of feminist literary theory, including relationships between men and women, marriage, the complexity of female characters, their treatment in literature, gender roles and how they are portrayed. This paper explores the themes of role reversal, female solidarity and fallen women with the aim of showing that Wilde's works were progressive for their time in terms of pointing out problematic societal expectations and

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Mrs., M. Kokila, and S. Abarna Mrs. "Comedy of Manners in the Importance of Being Earnest." International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development 3, no. 2 (2019): 710–11. https://doi.org/10.31142/ijtsrd21454.

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Oscar Wilde, an English author, was born in Dublin. Oscar distinguished himself in classics or the standard books of Greek and Latin authors at Trinity College, Dublin. At Oxford he gave evidence of his keen devotion to the subject of 'Art for Art's sake' and became one of the most prominent writers. His Works 'A Woman of No Importance' in 1893, 'An Ideal Husband' 1895, and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' 1895. As a writer exception of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' their merits are wholly shallow but not deep and their merits are derived from o

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Şekerci, Ömer. "Old and new information in terms of text organization: Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance." Journal of Human Sciences 14, no. 4 (2017): 3230. http://dx.doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v14i4.4759.

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This study aims to analyse “given” (or old) versus “new” information and topicality in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance (1893). It examines appropriate patterns from the mentioned functional styles in A Woman of No Importance. It is a four-act- play. It is a society comedy. We have chosen the first act for analysis. The dialogues chosen from the first act are informal. Though numerous authors have written on the subject of “given” (or old) versus “new” information and topicality, it is hardly applied to drama texts. In order to analyse the deep structure of dramatic texts it is important

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Hanson, Ellis. "Oscar Wilde and the Scarlet Woman." Journal of Homosexuality 33, no. 3-4 (1997): 121–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j082v33n03_06.

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Guan, Beibei. "Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism." Journal of Arts and Humanities 7, no. 2 (2018): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18533/journal.v7i2.1331.

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<p> <em>Abstract</em>-Dandyism is a very important and significant social phenomenon in 19<sup>th</sup> century Europe. This paper focuses on Oscar Wilde and Wilde’s numerous works. Aestheticism was used as a tool by the dandy in his rebellious performances in London, manifesting the contradiction between the spiritual and the material, the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, and art and nature. The social backgrounds and life experiences of Wilde influenced his transformation into dandies during the time of the Victorian period. With his strong sense of fashion and

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Helmita, Helmita, and Haicha Fadella. "A Sociological Analysis of The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde." Jurnal Ilmiah Langue and Parole 2, no. 1 (2018): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v2i1.329.

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This research is a about the marriage crisis is reflected in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband drama, what strategy is employed to maintain a marriage, and why did Oscar Wilde give concern in the marital crisis. The purpose of this study is (1) To describe the marital crisis illustrated reflected in the drama An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (2) To explain the strategy in maintaining a marriage (3) and to reveal the reason why Oscar Wilde gave concern in the marital crisis. The approach used is a sociology approach that the discusses an external aspects of a drama. The theory used in this research

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Helmita and Fadella Haicha. "A Sociological Analysis of The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde." Jurnal Ilmiah langue and parole 2, no. 1 (2018): 17–23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2404859.

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<em>This </em><em>research</em><em> is a</em> <em>about</em> <em>the </em><em>marriage crisis is reflected in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband drama, what strateg</em><em>y is employed </em><em>to </em><em>maintain</em><em> a marriage, and why </em><em>did </em><em>Oscar Wilde </em><em>give concern</em> <em>in</em><em> the marital crisis. The purpose of this study is (1) To </em><em>describe</em><em> the marital crisis</em><em> illustrated</em><em> reflected in the drama An Ideal Husband</em><em> by Oscar Wilde</em><em> (2) To explain the strategy in maintaining a marriage (3) and to </em><e

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Basim, Tawfeeq Tawfeeq. "Satire In Oscar Wilde's Play "The Importance Of Being Earnest"." IASR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 4 (2023): 01–05. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8410121.

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This research first explores the concept of satire, its origin, purposes and types. It deals with Oscar Wilde' play " The Importance of Being Earnest" which is regarded as the farcical Victorian play in the sense that it satirizes the rigid norms of the English society in the Victorian Period. In this paper, the Victorian era is shown as the age of aristocracy, vanity, hypocrisy, depression, strictness and many other norms which are detected in various literary works, one of them is Wilde's farcical play. The Importance of Being Earnest is a satirist play. Satire , as a conce

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Solo, Lenny. "EDUCATIONAL VALUES OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN “THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST” DRAMA BY OSCAR WILDE." Dialectical Literature and Educational Journal 5, no. 1 (2020): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.51714/dlejpancasakti.v5i1.19.pp.33-42.

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Educational values play important role in the human lives. These values are found in many literary works. Play is a literary works portrayed many educational values. This study aims to analyze the important of educational values portrayed and to investigate how the educational values integrated in The Importance of Being earnest play by Oscar Wilde in people education. The qualitative approach is applied this study. It studied the data in written or oral word descriptively. The primary data is taken from the script of The Importance of Being earnest play. It also uses references on literary bo

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Jesse Sorenson. "Influence of freemasonry in the works of Oscar Wilde." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 24, no. 1 (2024): 1339–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.24.1.3179.

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This paper seeks to demonstrate the extent of Freemasonry's impact on Oscar Wilde's penmanship and how it optimally impacted his paradigm, symbolism, and issues of concern. This research looks at the oeuvre, which includes The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, in illustrating the presence of materialist freemasonry embracing virtue, dualism, and search for knowledge. Their involvement in Freemasonry provided Wilde with the philosophy that encloses his ideas about personal freedom, moral dilemma, and individualism while writing. Thus, the paper shows that through explo

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Jesse, Sorenson. "Influence of freemasonry in the works of Oscar Wilde." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 24, no. 1 (2024): 1339–43. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15031664.

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This paper seeks to demonstrate the extent of Freemasonry's impact on Oscar Wilde's penmanship and how it optimally impacted his paradigm, symbolism, and issues of concern. This research looks at the oeuvre, which includes The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, in illustrating the presence of materialist freemasonry embracing virtue, dualism, and search for knowledge. Their involvement in Freemasonry provided Wilde with the philosophy that encloses his ideas about personal freedom, moral dilemma, and individualism while writing. Thus, the paper shows that through explo

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GOUIDER, Salsabil. "L’écriture du mystère dans Le Sphinx qui n’a pas de secret d’Oscar Wilde." ALTRALANG Journal 6, no. 1 (2024): 150–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/altralang.v6i1.408.

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ABSTRACT: Writing the mystery is a stylistic exercise that characterizes the short tale “The Sphinx without a secret” by Oscar Wilde. This article offers a study of the different stylistic processes and techniques adopted in the inscription of the mystery which singularizes the romantic adventure of an elusive woman, Lady Alroy and a reasonable man, Lord Murchison. Wilde's use of several language tools and the mise en abyme in the narration is the factor behind the intrusion of this mystery which not only arouses the curiosity of the hero and the reader because of the fabulous image of this wo

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Wilhelm, Lindsay. "SEX IN UTOPIA: THE EVOLUTIONARY HEDONISM OF GRANT ALLEN AND OSCAR WILDE." Victorian Literature and Culture 46, no. 2 (2018): 403–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318000074.

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In his provocative polemic“The New Hedonism,” Grant Allen mounts a passionate defense offin-de-siècleaestheticism by proposing a modern ethic – the titular “new hedonism,” which he borrows from Oscar Wilde's novelThe Picture of Dorian Gray(1890, rev. 1891) – that fully synthesizes aestheticism's insights with up-to-date scientific knowledge. At first glance, Allen seems an unexpected ally for Wilde, in part because few literary historians have explored the link between the two contemporaries. Many modern-day scholars of Allen's work (including Peter Morton, Bernard Lightman, William Greenslade

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Bobyleva, T. V. "The Ideal of a Russian Ladylove in Oscar Wilde’s Play: some features of Vera Sabouroff’s image." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 22, no. 2 (2024): 82–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2024-22-2-82-92.

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Vera Sabouroff in Vera; or, the Nihilists by Oscar Wilde is stereotypically interpreted as a nihilist. The purpose of the article is to reveal some of Vera’s features as a (loving and loved) Russian woman. The article suggests that Oscar Wilde might have known the main meanings of the female name Vera (‘faith’, ‘trust’) in Russian and thus emphasized its connection with the verb trust. The following meanings of the name Vera are revealed in the play context: faith in God; faith in humanity, kindness, and justice; faith as trust in love (Vera’s trust saves Alexis’s life, etc.). The qualitative

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Poorghorban, Younes. "Who is Oscar Wilde’s ideal woman? Constructing Victorian upper-class female identity in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan." Ars Aeterna 15, no. 1 (2023): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2023-0002.

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Abstract This article illuminates the definition of the Victorian upper-class woman following the dominant gender roles and conventions of the late Victorian era in the context of Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. Relying on Butlerian analyses of sex and gender, Victorian female subjectivity has been investigated. I have studied two opposing representations related to Victorian upper-class female subjects. The first view of Victorian upper-class female subjects concerns the representation of intelligible-gendered identities that are represented in the Duchess of Berwick. As opposed to this, an un

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Maxwell, Catherine. "Sarah Grand and Oscar Wilde: Decadence, Desire, and the Double Life." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 731–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000169.

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It is usual to put the New Woman writer Sarah Grand alongside Oscar Wilde to mark their differences. However, this essay suggests that these two authors had more in common than at first appears, both with regards to the fashioning of their literary identities and to their literary productions. Grand's compendious best-selling novel The Heavenly Twins (1893) is usually seen as realist fiction, but its interlude titled “The Tenor and the Boy,” which was actually composed much earlier, presents a stand-alone narrative that owes more to the romance mode and is much more playful in tone and spirit.

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Callejas, Cesar Benedicto. "LA IMPORTANCIA DE APELLIDARSE QUEENSBERRY. PODER, REPRESENTACIÓN Y LIBERTAD EN LOS JUICIOS DE ÓSCAR WILDE." Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de México 64, no. 262 (2017): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/fder.24488933e.2014.262.60347.

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Partiendo de los estudios de Derecho y Literatura, el autor realiza un repaso sobre la obra de Oscar Wilde. Con The Ideal Husband el escritor irlandés lanza un ataque fino y certero contra la doble moral victoriana. En este sentido, los textos de Wilde ofrecen varias lecturas, entre ellas, la crítica política. En The importance of being Earnest, Wilde denuncia una crisis de credibilidad de las normas que debían regular la conducta social, entrando en confrontación con los grupos de interés. Posteriormente, el autor describe los procesos judiciales en contra del escritor, exponiendo cartas que

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ABDULRAZZAQ, Dulfqar Mhaibes, and Mohammed Mahmood ABBAS. "CRISIS OF FEMININE IDENTITY: A CRITICAL STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE’S LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN FROM FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE." Volume 5, Issue 3 5, no. 3 (2020): 325–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26809/joa.5.024.

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This study explores the play Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde, and the feminist figures in the play and their role, to illustrate the dominant control of men in the Victorian period. And the discrimination towards women as a human being base on gender. This paper shows a piece of brief information about the author for what it has to do with Lady Windermere’s fan events. And demonstrates the feminism meaning and its impact on the events of the play, besides a short summary of the play. This paper focuses on the role of the fallen woman and how the author gradually transforms the audience's

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Cohen-Vrignaud, Gerard, and Simon Reader. "The Importance of Being Bitchy." GLQ 30, no. 2 (2024): 157–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11028990.

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This essay argues that bitchiness is an art form, a style of misanthropy and satiric dissonance that breaks with pious norms of mundane accuracy and “niceness.” Like the more commonly discussed category of camp, bitchiness is an off-color queer sensibility born of social marginalization, reveling in upsetting good taste for laughs. Traversing literary studies and popular culture, this essay tells the story of bitchy luminaries in three historical scenes: the tart wit of nineteenth-century satirists Jane Austen, George Gordon Byron, and Oscar Wilde; classic Hollywood divas and their homosexual

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Rahayu, Milda, Rasiah Rasiah, and Ansor Putra. "IMAGE OF VICTORIAN WOMEN IN AN IDEAL HUSBAND DRAMA SCRIPT BY OSCAR WILDE: A FEMINIST READING." Seshiski: Southeast Journal of Language and Literary Studies 4, no. 2 (2024): 140–56. https://doi.org/10.53922/seshiski.v4i2.71.

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This study purposed to show the image of Victorian women in England through the playwright script An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde. Feminist criticism proposed by Elaine Showalter is used as a tool to analyze the women images in the drama script, particularly dealing with Victorian women. The result of the analysis indicated that the script presents women in two faces; women as angels and women as demons. A woman as an angel is described as an ideal image of a woman in Victorian society. They are portrayed as women who maintain piety, purity, submission, and domesticity in societal life

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Widiyanti, Ana. "OSCAR WILDE’S CAMOUFLAGE CONFESSION AS SEEN IN THE STAR CHILD, AND THE SELFISH GIANT FAIRY TALES." Lingue : Jurnal Bahasa, Budaya, dan Sastra 3, no. 1 (2021): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33477/lingue.v3i1.1873.

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Abstract  The studies on Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales are mostly concern to reveal their moral values since fairy tales are usually written for children. Some researchers consider that fairy tales with their imaginative languages carry only a narrow or simple message to educate children with the result that make some of them reluctant to put it seriously as an object of research. Rather, this library research concern to reveal Oscar Wilde’s world view and the hidden message lied behind the symbolic language meaning in both The Start Child and The Selfish Giant Fairy tales. This resear

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Kaplan, Joel, and Sheila Stowell. "The Dandy and the Dowager: Oscar Wilde and Audience Resistance." New Theatre Quarterly 15, no. 4 (1999): 318–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013257.

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Oscar Wilde was punished not for failing to amuse the high society audiences for which he wrote, but for offending that society's sexual attitudes. Ironically, as Joel Kaplan and Sheila Stowell point out, his death transformed him ‘from a criminal outcast to a figure both redeemed and bankable’. For those who wished to exploit his theatrical legacy, the problems arose first of sufficiently dissociating the plays from what was perceived as their author's irredeemable behaviour – and then of finding a theatrical language to make the ridiculing of Victorian virtues risible for a society which had

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Hasan, Mariwan, Bafrin Ebrahim, and Rangin Mahmud. "Triviality and Seriousness in Oscar Wilde's Play 'The Importance of Being Earnest'." NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching 13, no. 2 (2022): 163–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/nobel.2022.13.2.163-174.

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This paper aims to elaborate triviality and seriousness portrayed in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1898). The play was considered Wilde’s masterpiece, and it highlights the life in the Victorian era. The play portrays the marriage life also the importance of wealth, land, and beauty. This paper employs textual and historical approaches. The findings revealed that the play exemplifies triviality by treating serious things like trivial objects and vice versa. Marriage was seen as insignificant by the male characters in the play. Lane saw it as the reason for the champagne downgr

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Levine, Philippa. "Rereading the 1890s: Venereal Disease as “Constitutional Crisis” in Britain and British India." Journal of Asian Studies 55, no. 3 (1996): 585–612. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2646447.

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My tale is an eloquent one, with heroes and villains, crises and angst, passion and fury. What it lacks in resolution it more than makes up for in dramatic tension. It is a story set in Britain and India in the 1890s, a time of intense polarities. This was the decade in which Oscar Wilde, Britain's most lionized playwright, was imprisoned for homosexuality; in which the spark of “new unionism” flared and then fizzled; in which Britain competed in the “scramble for Africa,” adding new colonial possessions to its already ample stockpile. It was the decade of imperial budgets, of mounting tension

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Ester Lammertyn, Maria. "La traducción del humor verbal: traducciones al español de “The importance of being Earnest” de Oscar Wilde." TRANSFER 5, no. 1 (2017): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/transfer.2010.5.26-40.

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This article deals with different Spanish translations of the title of Oscar Wilde’s comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. Various strategies employed by translators to cope with the pun in the title will be analyzed and two versions will be assessed, taking into account their impact on the plot and humour of the original play.

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Bastiat, Brigitte. "The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde: Conformity and Resistance in Victorian Society." Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, no. 72 Automne (December 4, 2010): 53–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/cve.2717.

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Akbar, Nadia Ali. "Investigating the Concepts Dandyism and Bunburyism in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest." International Journal of Literature Studies 2, no. 2 (2022): 09–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijts.2022.2.2.2.

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By the end of the eighteenth century, England witnessed a great event, that is, the French revolution, but what is more important is the British revolution which was the revolution of ideas. The Victorian age is an age of ideas, strictness, developments, depression, aristocracy, doubt, taboo, morals, and many other conventions. These changes are detected in great literary activities, discoveries in science, history, religion, politics, customs, and many other fields. Between the 30's and the 40s, many voices were heard through different kinds of art, showing the bad conditions of the working c

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Brennan, Brian. "The Banff Playwrights Colony: Finishing School." Canadian Theatre Review 49 (December 1986): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.49.006.

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Oscar Wilde dashed off The Importance Of Being Earnest in less than a month and George Bernard Shaw never corrected a line. But for most playwrights the process is more laborious. Plays today are not so much written as rewritten. Of course, poems are rewritten too. But a poet usually knows when his work is finished. A playwright can’t tell until he has heard the words spoken by actors. This can lead to acute emotional turmoil when opening night is just a couple of weeks away. Hence the importance of the Banff Playwrights Colony. Here a playwright can have his work read by professional actors,

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qizi, Andakulova Nilufar Botirjon. "Theoretical foundations of portrait descriptions in literature." International Journal Of Literature And Languages 5, no. 3 (2025): 78–80. https://doi.org/10.37547/ijll/volume05issue03-20.

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This study investigates the role of portrait descriptions in literature and how they affect character development, thematic depth, and narrative structure. The findings show that portrait descriptions are more than just ornamental elements; they are also important instruments for expressing psychological depth, social rank, and greater narrative significance. Portrait descriptions in works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, and Charlotte Brontë provide psychological insights, social background, and symbolic representation. The findings lend support to Forster's (1927) idea of "fla

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Im, Yeeyon. "“A SERIOUSNESS THAT FAILS”: RECONSIDERING SYMBOLISM IN OSCAR WILDE'SSALOMÉ." Victorian Literature and Culture 45, no. 1 (2017): 163–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150316000486.

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Writing as recently as 2011, Michael Bennett asks ifSaloméis an anomaly in the oeuvre of Oscar Wilde (viii). Read against his witty societal comedies of manners, it certainly appears to be one.Saloméhas been regarded as a fine example of symbolist drama in the history of British theatre, and few critics would dispute its “seriousness” as such. Its growing significance in recent discourses of gender and sexuality also adds seriousness to the play. Although Feminist and gender critics show little qualms about dubbing the play as symbolist, the final tableau of a young girl kissing the mouth of t

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Orlando, Emily J. "Passionate Love-Letters to a Dead Girl: Elizabeth Siddall in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray." Victoriographies 7, no. 2 (2017): 101–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2017.0266.

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While Oscar Wilde's attraction to Pre-Raphaelite art has been well documented, surprisingly little attention has been paid to his career-long fascination with Elizabeth Siddall (1829–62). This essay will demonstrate that Wilde's deep and abiding interest in Siddall reverberates across his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), to an extent that has not been considered. I will specifically argue that the suicide of Dorian Gray's lover Sibyl Vane was inspired by Elizabeth Siddall's untimely overdose. The very name Sibyl echoes Siddall, who is best known as the model for John Everett Mill

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Alves, Manoel Carlos dos Santos. "The Two-Faced Mirror: The Aristotelian-Hegelian Structure of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde." ABEI Journal 25, no. 2 (2023): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v25i2p19-31.

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For centuries, classical Greek drama was considered, by playwrights and theorists alike, the greatest influence on the structure of the dramatic text. One of its main features, for example, was the law of three units. Elaborated by Aristotle, the prescriptions oriented the plays to take place in a single place, within twenty-four hours, and exhibit a continuous plot, with a beginning, middle, and end. However, for thinkers such as Hegel, modern drama needed new approaches. In his writings, the German philosopher postulated that modern drama should exhibit narrative speed, and a certain dynamic

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Bobyleva, T. V. "Madonna Mia… The Ideal of Beloved Lady in Oscar Wilde’s Early Work." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 23, no. 1 (2025): 46–57. https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2025-23-1-46-57.

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The analysis of Russian characters in the world’s literature is of special interest to researchers. The relevance of the work is also related to the fact that Oscar Wilde’s early plays have not been studied well enough. The purpose of the paper is to reveal how the sacred ideal of madonna (beloved lady) inspired by D. Alighieri’s work is incarnated by the female protagonists of Oscar Wilde’s two earliest plays Vera Sabouroff and the duchess of Padua. For this purpose, four main features (based on Vita Nuova by D. Alighieri) were selected: Sacredness, Eternity, Moral Purity, and Nobility (inclu

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Musolf, Peter. "Bunburying and the Art of Kabuki; or, Wilde, Mishima, and the Importance of Being a Sardine Seller." New Theatre Quarterly 12, no. 48 (1996): 333–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00010526.

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In this period of politically correct regard for cultural difference it is easy to overlook the unifying effect on human experience of modernity's cultural boundary-jumping. In the following essay Peter Musolf compares Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest with Yukio Mishima's 1954 kabuki play Iwashiuri Koi no Hikiami (The Sardine Seller), focusing on the belief these writers shared in the sovereignty of illusion over fact and their consequent conviction that life is to be lived as if it were a dramatic fiction. Taken together with Mishima's novel Confessions of a Mask, the plays compr

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Milovanović, Boško. "Correlativity of Serbian language and literature and religious teaching contents." Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Pristini 52, no. 2 (2022): 307–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrffp52-38239.

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The educational system needs to be based on the development of personality and realization of its integrity. Therefore, by analysing and comparing the curricula of the two subjects - Serbian Language and Literature and Religious Education - in junior grades (1-4) of primary school, we ascertained certain common goals and identified the elements which facilitate their realization and those which make it difficult. We observed the need for a stronger connection between the set goals and the expected outcomes of learning in the curricula of the two subjects, and education in general, with special

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KNIGHT, ALAN. "Populism and Neo-populism in Latin America, especially Mexico." Journal of Latin American Studies 30, no. 2 (1998): 223–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x98005033.

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‘In all matters of importance, style and not content is the important thing’: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest.Populism is a concept which, despite repeated critiques, refuses to disappear from Latin American studies. This article reviews some of the literature, suggesting that populism is best defined in terms of a particular political style, characteristically involving a proclaimed rapport with ‘the people’, a ‘them-and-us’ mentality, and (often, though not necessarily) a period of crisis and mobilisation; none of which makes it exceptional, abnormal, ‘unmediated’ or irrational.

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Kostantzer, Stephane Christian. "The Effects and Functions of Mentioning or Distorting Proverbs in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest." Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 48, no. 1 (2015): 113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/ranam.2015.1495.

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Le présent article propose une étude d’une sélection de proverbes tirés de The Importance of Being Earnest d’Oscar Wilde. Elle vise à démontrer que les proverbes possèdent de façon inhérente un potentiel de subversion qui explique leurs affinités avec l’humour. Après avoir brièvement rappelé les spécificités linguistiques des proverbes et exposé différentes définitions de l’humour, nous entreprendrons l’analyse de deux proverbes déformés et des deux occurrences du seul proverbe demeuré intact. En appliquant les concepts de subversion et de captation empruntés à Gresillon et Maingueneau, nous s

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NASSAAR, CHRISTOPHER S. "THE FARQUHAR AND ARBUTHNOT CONNECTIONS IN OSCAR WILDE'S A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE." Notes and Queries 48, no. 2 (2001): 158—b—162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nq/48-2-158b.

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Kuznetsova, Natalya V. "The Forms of the Interaction between “Civilization” and “Nature” in the Fiction by Oscar Wilde: The Exchange and the Ritual of Sacrifice." Imagologiya i komparativistika, no. 16 (2021): 68–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/24099554/16/5.

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Most of Oscar Wilde’s works focus on the high society (including the royalty), which is portrayed as artificial, imitative, and ludic. These characteristics are epitomized in the process of collecting (artificial) rarities (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, The Young King), or in the passion for performance and mystification (The Birthday of the Infanta, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Importance of Being Ernest). As opposed to the “high society”, Wilde shows the natural (or ancient) milieu, which is firmer and healthier, but devoid of aesthetic perfection. Paradoxically, the high society r

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Bolon, Matthias. "Identity Awareness in Casting." Journal of Consent-Based Performance 2, no. 2 (2023): 30–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.46787/jcbp.v2i2.3868.

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Autonomy in choosing is a powerful source of human contentment, and performer consent is essential in producing the best experience for the actor and the audience (McCloskey, 1990). This Note from the Field reflects upon practical consent-based tools for performance and communication that supported me, as a transgender (“trans”) masculine student actor, in confidently playing a classic feminine role for my university’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. I offer my experience in order to provide practical recommendations regarding: building a support system; optimizin

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Canadas, Ivan. "Understanding “the Plain and the Coloured” in Oscar Wilde's A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE." Explicator 75, no. 2 (2017): 65–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2016.1273189.

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D’Olimpio, Laura. "When good art is bad: Educating the critical viewer." Theory and Research in Education 18, no. 2 (2020): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878520947024.

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There is a debate within philosophy of literature as to whether narrative artworks should be judged morally, for their ethical value, meaning and impact. On one side you have the aesthetes, defenders of aestheticism, who deny the ethical value of an artwork can be taken into consideration when judging the work’s overall aesthetic value. Richard Posner backs artists such as Oscar Wilde who famously wrote, ‘there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all’. On the other side of the debate are proponents of ethical criticism such as Marth

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Stokes, John, William Tydeman, Katharine Worth, and Jean M. Ellis D'Alessandro. "Wilde: Comedies. 'Lady Windermere's Fan', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'An Ideal Husband', 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. A Casebook." Yearbook of English Studies 16 (1986): 338. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3507853.

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Zotov, Aleksei M. "The portrait of Dorian Gray as Narcissus' ID." Aspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya 23, no. 3 (2023): 49–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.55531/2072-2354.2023.23.3.49-55.

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Aim through the analysis of a fiction novel, to review contemporary social relations where narcissistic issues manifest themselves. The modern Homo Psychologicus, a human being of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, more and more resembles the Narcissus captured by enthusiastic self-adoration. The extreme importance of how people demonstrate themselves in society, the escalated investments in personal image, claims of omnipotence and superpowers are combined with formalism and coldness, fear of human intimacy, shame and hiding one's own underside. The narcissistic proble

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Zhdanova, Eleonora, Saltanat Beiskhanova, and Nilzhan Abzhamalova. "Implementation of the Basic Functions of Metaphors in the Work Piece of O. Wilde “A Woman of No Importance“." European Researcher 93, no. 4 (2015): 312–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.13187/er.2015.93.312.

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Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. "“SHREWD WOMEN OF BUSINESS”: MADAME RACHEL, VICTORIAN CONSUMERISM, AND L. T. MEADE'STHE SORCERESS OF THE STRAND." Victorian Literature and Culture 34, no. 1 (2006): 311–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150306051175.

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STANLEYFISH RECENTLY IDENTIFIEDthe intersection between crime and religion as a hot topic, a trend that he gauged by paying attention to a popular television show: “Law and Order…from its beginning…has had its plots follow the headlines. Only if the tension between commitment to the rule of law and commitment to one's ethnic or religious affiliation was, so to speak, in the news would a television writer put it at the heart of a story.” During the same week that Fish published this claim, a Texas woman who drowned her five children had her guilty verdict overturned when it was revealed that an

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Khukhuni, Georgy T., and Irina I. Valuitseva. "Bilingual literary creativity: language shift or code-switching?" Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education 2, no. 6 (2021): 227–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.6-21.227.

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The writing of texts in more than one language by the same author referred to as a literary creation has a long history. It can be both the original composition and a self-translation by the author with a certain degree of revision of the initial text. The purpose of this article is to consider some cases of author’s bilingualism / polylingualism and analyze its varieties. The material for the research includes literary creations of a number of authors who lived in different historical periods (Joseph Flavius, Ulrich von Hutten, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenk

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Denisoff, Dennis. "Introduction: The Scales of Decadence." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 4 (2021): 541–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000194.

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Recent scholars have been captivated by the indeterminate potentialities that decadence sets not in contradiction to, but in disarming misstep with, Victorian claims of individual, social, and global systems operating harmoniously toward a singular order. These systems also happened to privilege the aspirations of the middle class, the patriarchal machinery, white British colonial expansionism, and anthropocentric privilege. In a scene in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Oscar Wilde offers a particularly pithy encapsulation of this effective obliqueness and extensibility of decadence in

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Kim Yunejee. "Why is Being Earnest Important to Victorian Women?: New Woman and Social Geography of Victorian Culture in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest." Studies in English Language & Literature 40, no. 1 (2014): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21559/aellk.2014.40.1.001.

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Whiteley, Giles. "Joseph Donohue (ed.), The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume IX: Plays 2: Lady Lancing. Pp. xxvi + 607 & Volume X: Plays 3: The Importance of Being Earnest & ‘A Wife’s Tragedy’ (fragment)." Notes and Queries 67, no. 3 (2020): 446–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa120.

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