书名：The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings奥斯卡·王尔德戏剧及作品精选集

作者：Oscar Wilde奥斯卡·王尔德
出版社名称：Signet
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451532220
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.4 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：448
奥斯卡·王尔德，英国作家、戏剧家、诗人，以小说、童话、戏剧、诗歌闻名，其作品唯美而富有深邃的哲学思想，一直广为流传。

这本The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings收录了王尔德的5部重要戏剧，包括Salome《莎乐美》、The Importance of Being Earnest《不可儿戏》、Lady Windermere’s Fan
《温德米尔夫人的扇子》、A Woman of No Importance《无足轻重的女人》和An Ideal Husband
《理想丈夫》。此外，本书还收录了王尔德发表的一些重要文学评论，以及关于他的两段采访。本书为Signet Classics推出的英文版，书本轻巧便携。由Sylvan Barnet写导言，Marylu Hill写后记。
Oscar Wilde’s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong—with pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was written.
In addition to Wilde’s five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains:
•Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work—and his critics
•Some of his most brilliant critical writing, in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of today’s literary theory
•An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of The Importance of Being Earnest
With an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet
and a New Afterword by Marylu Hill
Review
“This collection... illustrates the full range of his interests and of his wit.”——Oxford Times
奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde，1854~1900），出生于爱尔兰都柏林，是有名的作家、诗人、戏剧家、艺术家，唯美主义艺术运动的倡导者。他于1874年进入牛津大学学习，受到了沃尔特·佩特及约翰·拉斯金的审美观念影响，并接触了新黑格尔派哲学、达尔文进化论和拉斐尔前派的作品。王尔德于1884年结婚，婚后生了两个孩子。1895年因为与同性友人阿尔弗莱德·道格拉斯（Lord Alfred Douglas）交往，进而被判入狱。1897年获释后前去巴黎，直至1900年在巴黎因病去世。著有童话集《快乐王子与其他故事》等、诗集《斯芬克斯》等、小说《道林·格雷的画像》等、戏剧《不可儿戏》《莎乐美》等，另有散文《自深深处》与评论集数本，是不可多得的全才作家。

Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 16, 1854. He was an outstanding student of classics at Trinity College, and, in 1874, entered Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize with his poem “Ravenna” (1878). An early leader of the “Aesthetic Movement,” which advanced the concept of “Art for Art’s Sake,” Wilde became a prominent personality in literary and social circles. His volume of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) was followed by The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and The House of Pomegranates (1892). However, it was not until his play Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) was presented to the public that he became widely famous. A Woman of No Importance (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) confirmed his stature as a dramatist. In 1895 he brought libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury; revelations at the trial about his relationships led to his being sentenced under the Criminal Law Amendment for homosexual acts. Upon his release in 1897, he settled on the Continent, where he wrote his most powerful and enduring poem, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898). Oscar Wilde died in Paris on November 30, 1900.

Sylvan Barnet, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, is professor of English at Tufts University, specializing in English drama.  He is the General Editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series and the author or coauthor of many books, including Types of Drama, 8th edition, and An Introduction to Literature, 13th edition.

Marylu Hill is the Director of the Center for Liberal Education at Villanova University. She is the author of Mothering Modernity:  Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse (1999), and coeditor (with Paul Kerry) of Thomas Carlyle Resartus (2010). She has published numerous essays on Victorian subjects, including Thomas Carlyle, Christina Rossetti, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Her current book project is on Oscar Wilde and Platonic dialogue.
Introduction

Chronology
Plays
Salome
Lady Windermere’s Fan
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Earnest
“The Gribsby Episode” in The Importance of Being Earnest
Literary Criticism
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Letters to the Editor of the Scots Review
From the Decay of Lying
From the Critic as Artist
An Ideal Husband at the Haymarket Theatre: A Talk with Mr. Oscar Wilde
Mr. Oscar Wilde on Mr. Oscar Wilde
Afterword
Suggested References