Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850003-002
The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Background details and bibliographic information
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Electronic edition compiled by Margaret Lantry
Funded by University College, Cork
2. Second draft.
Proof corrections by Margaret Lantry
Extent of text: 23410 words
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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (1997) (2008) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E850003-002
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Notes
There is not as yet an authoritative edition of Wilde's works.
Sources
Select editions- The writings of Oscar Wilde (London; New York:
A. R. Keller & Co. 1907) 15 vols.
- Robert Ross (ed), The First Collected Edition of
the Works of Oscar Wilde (London: Methuen & Co. 1908).
15 vols. Reprinted Dawsons: Pall Mall 1969.
- Complete works of Oscar Wilde (Glasgow:
HarperCollins, 1994).
Select bibliography- 'Notes for a bibliography of Oscar Wilde', Books and
book-plates (A quarterly for collectors) 5, no. 3 (April
1905), 170-183.
- Karl E. Beckson, The Oscar Wilde encyclopedia (New
York: AMS Press 1998). AMS Studies in the nineteenth
century 18.
- Richard Ellmann (ed), The Artist as Critic: Critical
Writings of Oscar Wilde (Chicago 1982).
- Richard Ellmann; John Espey, Oscar Wilde: two
approaches: papers read at a Clark Library seminar, April
17, 1976 (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, University of California 1977).
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: a lecture
delivered at the Library of Congress on March 1, 1983
(Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1984).
- Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London:
Hamilton 1987).
- Juliet Gardiner, Oscar Wilde: a life in letters,
writings and wit (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
1995).
- Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde, including My memories of
Oscar Wilde, by George Bernard Shaw and an introductory
note by Lyle Blair (London: Robinson, 1992).
- Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), Selected letters of Oscar
Wilde (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1979).
- Rupert Hart-Davis (ed), More letters of Oscar Wilde
(London: Murray 1985).
- Vyvyan Beresford Holland, Oscar Wilde: a pictorial
biography (London: Thames & Hudson 1960).
- H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: a biography (London:
Methuen 1977).
- Andrew McDonnell, Oscar Wilde at Oxford: an annotated
catalogue of Wilde manuscripts and related items at the
Bodleian Library, Oxford, including many hitherto
unpublished letters, photographs and illustrations (A.
McDonnell 1996). Limited edition of 170 copies.
- Stuart Mason, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (London: E.
G. Richards 1907). Also pubd. New York 1908, London 1914
in 2 vols. Repr. of 1914 edition: New York: Haskell House
1972.
- E. H. Mikhail, Oscar Wilde: an annotated bibliography
of criticism (London: Macmillan 1978). Also pubd. Totowa
NJ: Rowman & Littlefield 1978.
- Thomas A. Mikolyzk, Oscar Wilde: an annotated
bibliography (Westport CT: Greenwood Press 1993).
Bibliographies and indexes in world literature, 38.
- Norman Page, An Oscar Wilde chronology (London:
Macmillan 1991).
- Hesketh Pearson, A Life of Oscar Wilde (London
1946).
- Richard Pine, The thief of reason: Oscar Wilde and
modern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996).
- Horst Schroeder, Additions and corrections to Richard
Ellmann's Oscar Wilde (Braunschweig: H. Schroeder
1989)
The edition used in the digital edition- Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest in Plays, Prose Writings and Poems. , London, Everyman (1930) pages 450509
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Profile Description
Created: By Oscar Wilde (18541900).
(1895)
Use of language
Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [FR] One word occurring twice in Anglo-French.
Revision History
- (2008-07-30)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Keywords added; file validated; new wordcount made. Minor changes made to header.
- (2005-08-25)
Julianne Nyhan (ed.)
- Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
- (2005-08-04T14:24:34+0100)
Peter Flynn (conversion)
- Converted to XML
- (1998-01-06)
Margaret Lantry (ed.)
- Text parsed using NSGMLS.
- (1998-01-06)
Margaret Lantry (ed.)
- Proof corrections entered and mark-up corrected; text
spell-checked.
- (1997-11-16)
Margaret Lantry (ed.)
- Text proofed.
- (1997-12-15)
Margaret Lantry (ed.)
- Header created; structural mark-up inserted.
- (1997-09-04)
Margaret Lantry (ed.)
- Text captured by scanning.