a ISBN 0-86140-378-9

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number PR5818.I45

b Item number D66 1995

a Dewey Classification 822/.8

a Personal name Donohue Joseph

a Title Oscar Wilde's The importance of being earnest :

b Remainder of title a reconstructive critical edition of the text of the first production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 /

c Statement of responsibility, etc annotated and illustrated from contemporary sources and edited with introductory essays on the play and its text ; by Joseph Donohue with Ruth Berggren.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Gerrards Cross :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Colin Smythe,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1995.

a Extent 376 p. :

b Other physical details ill., facsims., maps, ports. ;

c Dimensions 22 x 28 cm.

a Series statement Princess Grace Irish library ;

v Volume number/sequential designation 10

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-376).

a Formatted contents note The Play and its Moment. 1. The Opening Night. 2. The Author of the Play. 3. Composition and Proposals for Production. 4. Emergence of the Three-Act Text. 5. Alexander and the St. James's. 6. The First Night Cast. 7. Supporting Persons. 8. The Trials and the Closing -- The Production Text. 1. The Problem of Performance Text. 2. The Rehearsal Period and the Creation of the Three-Act Text. 3. A New Text of the Play. 4. Other Three-Act Texts. 5. Texts of the First Production. 6. Editorial Approach and Method: the Arents-Frohman Text. 7. A Licensing Copy Reading. 8. Textual Evidence in the Reviews and First-Production Photographs. 9. The Harvard-Dickens Typescript. 10. The Reconstructive Text of Opening Night -- The Importance of Being Earnest. Dramatis Personae. Act I. Act II. Act III -- Appendix A. The Date of the First Samuel French Edition -- Appendix B. The Date of the Harvard-Dickens Typescript.

a Personal name Berggren Ruth

a Personal name Wilde, Oscar,

d Dates associated with a name 1854-1900.

a Uniform title Princess Grace Irish Library series ;