The Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Vera, The Duchess of Padua, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, Salomé, An Ideal Husband, For Love of the King, The Decay of Lying…By Oscar Wilde
Length25h 33m
About this audiobook
The Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde gathers the dramatic works through which Wilde transformed the late-Victorian stage: the glittering society comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, alongside the symbolist tragedy Salome and earlier dramatic experiments. These plays combine epigrammatic brilliance, social satire, and formal elegance, exposing the hypocrisies of respectability while delighting in paradox, artifice, and theatrical wit. Situated between Victorian melodrama, French decadence, and modern comedy of manners, they remain central to fin-de-siècle literature. Oscar Wilde, Irish-born classicist, critic, aesthete, and public provocateur, brought to drama a mind shaped by Oxford learning, continental art theory, and a lifelong fascination with masks, performance, and moral doubleness. His own navigation of fame, scandal, and social constraint informs the plays' recurring tensions between public virtue and private desire, sincerity and pose, law and imagination. This collection is indispensable for readers interested in theatre, literary modernity, or the anatomy of social convention. Wilde's plays reward both performance and close reading, offering comedy of dazzling surface and enduring intellectual depth.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length25 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 5, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26ACT THREE
2Introduction
27ACT FOUR
3Author Biography
28A Woman of No Importance
4Historical Context
29THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
5Synopsis (Selection)
30ACT ONE
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6Vera
31ACT TWO
7PERSONS IN THE PROLOGUE.
32ACT THREE
8PERSONS IN THE PLAY.
33ACT FOUR
9PROLOGUE.
34Salomé
10ACT I.
35Salome (English version)
11ACT II.
36An Ideal Husband
12ACT III.
37THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
13ACT IV.
38ACT ONE
14The Duchess of Padua
39SECOND ACT
15THE DUCHESS OF PADUA
40THIRD ACT
16THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
41FOURTH ACT
17ACT I
42The Importance of Being Earnest
18ACT II
43THE PERSONS IN THE PLAY
19ACT III
44ACT ONE
20ACT IV
45ACT TWO
21ACT V
46ACT THREE
22Lady Windermere’s Fan
47La Sainte Courtisane
23THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
48A Florentine Tragedy
24ACT ONE
49For Love of the King
25ACT TWO
50PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
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