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The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson.

"Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

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我弹琴并不准确，要弹得准确，谁都会。可是我弹得表情十足。就弹琴而言，我的长处在感情。至于技巧嘛，我用来对付生活。

Algernon: I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

每个人犯了错，都美其名为经验

就弹琴而言，我的长处在感情。置于技巧嘛，我用来对付生活。

浪漫的基本精神全在琢磨不定。万一我结了婚，就一定给要忘记自己是结了婚的。

到头来，所有女人都变得像自己的母亲。那是女人的悲剧。可是没一个男人像自己的母亲。那是男人的悲剧。

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The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson.

"Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

• 作者：JamesPetrelli 发布时间：2017-12-19 22:52:47

  2017年读1895年的书，竟然不觉得过时，里头的包袱抖出来还是笑喷，拯救了我在砖厂搬砖时的谷底心情。

• 作者：Sophie 发布时间：2011-05-11 22:40:39

  A flawless comedy.

• 作者：Chicology 发布时间：2012-01-14 18:41:25

  读完精彩绝伦的正文然后直接跳到萧伯纳的毒辣点评，真他妈过瘾！萧伯纳用明显带有精英分子式的蔑视说（he would confess to a chuckle~）：“If the public ever becomes intelligent enough to know when it is really enjoying itself and when it is not, there will be an end of farcical comedy.” 另外在Backgrounds里彻彻底底地学了一个法语词儿——“fin de siècle”

• 作者：- -. - . . 发布时间：2022-03-23 21:01:16

  对当年写论文真是帮了大忙的一本书

• 作者：Zoe喜欢吃菠萝 发布时间：2023-05-15 21:04:22

  不好玩，但是可以写论文

• 作者：free_POC 发布时间：2017-11-17 22:58:14

  一般吧，觉得自己学校的那本高数更清晰。

• Wilde的台词功力

  作者：Antonio 发布时间：2008-01-13 23:51:59

  王尔德算不上一个好的剧作家，恩。比如这部the importance of being earnest，无论男女、老少、主仆，十来号人说起话来都是一个调调，我晕~~ 一样伶牙俐齿，玩世不恭，每个人的嘴里都时不时冒出几句王氏招牌悖论，害得我老觉得是王尔德一人分饰多角自言自语了三幕！自负机智诙谐的作者们好像都有点这个毛病，比如简奥斯丁，傲慢与偏见里凡是聪明人，比如Lizzy和她爸爸，还有Darcy，说起话来的感觉都基本都差不多。

   

  话说回来，这样要情节没情节，要角色没角色的剧，还能让人津津有味的看完，王尔德的台词功力实在是强啊！突然觉得，我们的某种贺岁片走得好像也是这条路线。。。本来打算学习一下人家说话的艺术，可是总是还没有念完一句，就笑岔了气，放弃放弃~~ 决定从现在开始纯当笑话书看。

• The Importance of Being Symmetrically Ironic

  作者： 发布时间：2012-04-16 18:49:30

  The balance of the piece is astounding. Characters developing, setting construction and plot unfolding, all of which present the perfect juxtapositions of two ends of everything: affluence and scarcity, wittiness and dullness, embrace and hostility, and of course, earnest and frivolity.

  The characters development is both humorous and meaningful. Algernon, a blue-blooded, overeducated young man with a fancy name living in a manor in London will be at last revealed to be “have only his debts to depend on”. Jack, an orphan, a country boy and a social climber with an ordinary name will be at last revealed to be the warden of hundred of thousands inheritance and the true prince of Earnest. Gwendolen, again, a girl with a fancy name with a fancy family background is not in the least as much as intelligent as Cecily, again, a girl with an ordinary name who inherits hundred of thousands after losing both of her parents in childhood. The vivid irony of a character appears to be someone but turn out to be the opposite of someone is the amusing theme of the play, and such amusement isn’t only reverberating in characters development.

  The setting of the play also oozes symmetry and irony. At the first part of the play, Jack defies Algernon by eating all his cucumber sandwiches and by successfully proposing to Gwendolen. At the second part of the play, Algernon disregards Jack’s forbiddance by successfully proposing to Cecily after he eats up Jack’s muffins. The correspondence of these two scene manifests the determination of a social climber and the snobbery of an elite. The juxtaposition of London and country setting reflects the shallowness of class division as well. Lady Bracknell, who lives in London and who despises people who live in the country has hardly deign to visit, but when she does, she proves herself to be a true two-faced hypocrite without any social grace. And this truth is particularly conspicuous next to the comparison of humble and gracious manners of the country residents.

  Of course, I have to mention that the plot is hilarious and the hidden punchlines are tasteful. Oscar WIlde’s whips of humor and irony can be found everywhere. People are not who they claim to be; people won’t to what they said they would do. People wrap themselves with the fabricated appearances to escape or to covet, only to find out like merry-go-around they are back to where they began. As spectators as we are, watching or reading the play, we see ignorance, we see hubris, we see absurdity as we do every day of our lives. We worship appearance and we are betrayed by it, but we will never change because “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” Great literary works can be important only for the sake of its beauty, like this play, it can be extraordinary only for its aesthetic, for its symmetrical irony.