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MAY 2003

 

The Importance of being  Earnest

 

 

This month we began a bibliography of The Importance of being Earnest, to which we hope readers will contribute.  This is in chronological order, 1902-2002.  We will update it to 2007 at the end of that year.

 

1.  Max Beerbohm: The Importance of Being Earnest.  London: The Saturday Review 18th January 1902; reprinted in Around Theatres.  London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1953.

2.  Ada Leverson: The Last First Night.  London: The Criterion, April 1926.

3.  Eric Bentley: The Importance of Being Earnest in The Playwright as Thinker: A study of Drama in Modern Times. New York: Reznal & Hitchcock 1946.

4.  Werner Vortreide: A Dramatic Device in Faust & The Importance of Being Earnest.  Oxford: Modern  Language  Notes 70 : 8, 1955.

5.  Otto Reinert: Satiric Strategy in The Importance of Being Earnest.  College English 18, October 1956.

6.  Richard Foster: Wilde as Parodist: A second look at The Importance of being Earnest.  College English 18, October 1956.

7.  Otto Reinert: The Courtship Dance in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama  1, 1958.

8.  E. B. Partridge: The Importance of Not being Earnest.  Cranbury NJ: Bucknell Review 9 : 2, 1960.

9.  Arthur Ganz: The Meaning of The Importance of being Earnest.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama  6 pp.42-52, 1963.

10.  Paul Wadleigh: Earnest at St James's Theatre.  Quarterly Journal of Speech 52 pp.58-62, 1966.

11.  Edward H. Mikhail: The Four Act Version of The Importance of Being Earnest.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama  11, 1968.

12.  Eric Bentley: The Importance of Being Earnest in Richard Ellmann (ed.):  Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eaglewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1969.

13.  James M. Ware: Algernon's Appetite – Oscar Wilde's Hero as Restoration Dandy.  Greensboro, N. Carolina: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 13 1970.

14.  Robert J. Jordan: Satire and Fantasy in The Importance of being Earnest.  Ariel 1 : 3, July 1970.

15.  Joseph W. Donohue: The First Production of The Importance of being Earnest: A Proposal for a Reconstructive Study in Methuen Essays on Nineteenth Century British Theatre. London: Methuen 1971.

16.  Emil Roy: British Drama Since Shaw [Chapter on The Importance of Being Earnest] Southern Carbondale | London: Illinois U.P. & Feffer and Simons 1972.

17.  Ian Butler: The Importance of Being Earnest.  Précis in The 100 Best Full Length Plays for Amateurs (no text).  London: Pelham Books 1972.

18.  L.A. Poague: The Importance of being Earnest – The Texture of Wilde's Irony.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama 16, pp.251-7  1973.

19.  David Parker: Oscar Wilde's Greatest Farce: The Importance of Being Earnest.  Seattle: Modern Language Quarterly 35 : 2, 1974.

20.  Dennis J. Spinninger: Profiles & Principles: The Sense of the Absurd in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Papers on Language & Literature 12,  1976.

21.  Geoffrey Stone: Serious Bunburyism: The Logic of The Importance of Being Earnest.  Essays in Criticism 26, 1976.

22.  Roberta Mullini: 'Cortesia' e 'Onesta' in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Pisa: Spicilegio Moderno 12, 1979.

23.  Robert Keith Miller: Exploring the Absurd: The Importance of being Earnest.  Chapter IV of Miller: Oscar Wilde.  New York: Frederick Ungar 1982.

24.  Russell Jackson: A Classic without Danger: The National Theatre's Importance of Being Earnest.  Critical Quarterly 25 : 2  1983.

25.  Ruth Harriet Berggren: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest: A Critical Edition of the Four Act Version.  Ann Arbor: Dissertation Abstracts International 45 : 2, August 1984.

26.  Keith Brown: Art for Ernest's Sake.  Leicester: English: the Journal of the English Association 33:147, Autumn 1984.

27.  Ali A. Al-Hejazi: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Gilbert's Engaged: A Comparative Study.  Journal of the College of the Arts 12:1,  1985.

28.  Joel Kaplan: Ernest Worthing's London Address: A Reconsideration.  Saskatoon: Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 11 : 1, 1985.

29.  Neil Sammells: Earning Liberties: Travesties and The Importance of being Earnest.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama 29 : 3, 1986.

30.  Anthony Easthope: Jokes & Ideology: 'The Frogs' and 'Earnest'.  Colchester: New Comparison 3, 1987.

31.  John Glavin: Deadly Earnest and Earnest Revised: Oscar Wilde's Four-Act Play.  Charleston SC: Nineteenth Century Studies 1, 1987.

32.  Horst Breuer: Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest als Modernes Drama.  Heidelberg: Germanisch Romanisch Monatsschrift 38 : 4, 1988.

33.  Susan Laity: The Soul of Man under Victoria: Iolanthe, The Importance of Being Earnest and Bourgeois Drama in Harold Bloom (ed.): Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.  New York: Chelsea House 1988.

34.  Gordon Blackwell: Earnest Gets Its Acts Together.  Mount Airy, MD: Wild about Wilde Newsletter  4, May 1988.

35.  Thomas R. Whitaker: Playing in Earnest in Susan Dick et al (edd.): Ordinum Gatherum: Essays for Richard Ellmann.  Gerrard's Cross: Colin Smythe 1989.

36.  Walter Poznar: Life & Play in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.  Pittsburgh: Midwest Quarterly 30 : 4, 1989.

37.  Christopher Craft: Alias Bunbury: Desire & Termination in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Berkeley, California: Representations 31 Summer 1990; reprinted in Regenia Gagnier (ed.): Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde. New York: G.K. Hall 1991.

38.  Ed Cohen: Laughing in Earnest: the Trying Context of Wilde's 'Trivial' Comedy.  New York: Literature Interpretation Theory 3 : 1, 1991.

39.  Joel Fineman: The Significance of Literature: The Importance of Being Earnest

in Regenia Gagnier (ed.): Critical Essays on Oscar Wilde. New York: G.K. Hall 1991; reprinted in Richard Ellmann (ed.): Oscar Wilde, A Collection of Critical Essays. Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall 1996.

40.  Peter Raby: The Making of The Importance of Being Earnest: An Unpublished Letter from Oscar Wilde.  London: TLS no 4629, 20th December 1991.

41.  Jacqueline Vanhoutte: Salome's Earnestness.  Gainesville, Florida: Text & Presentation: the Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference 1992.

42.  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Tales of the Avunculate – Queer Tutelage in The Importance of Being Earnest in  Sedgwick: Tendencies.  Duke University Press 1993; reprinted in George E. Haggerty & Bonnie Zimmerman (edd.): Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature.  New York: Modern Language Association 1995.

43.  Michael Patrick Gillespie: From Beau Brummell to Lady Bracknell: Reviewing the Dandy in The Importance of Being Earnest. Greenville NC: Victorians Institute Journal 21, 1993.

44.  Peter Raby: The Origins of The Importance of Being Earnest.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama  37: 1, Spring 1994.

45.  Peter Raby: 'The Persons of the Play': Some Reflections on Wilde's Choice of Names in The Importance of Being Earnest.  Nineteenth Century Theatre 23 pp.67-75,  1995.

46.  Katharine Worth: The Importance of Being Earnest in Richard Ellmann (ed.): Oscar Wilde, A Collection of Critical Essays. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall 1996.

47.  W. Craven Mackie: Bunbury Pure and Simple.  Downsview, Ontario: Modern Drama  41 pp.327-30,  1998.

48.  Dariusz Pestka: Society Comedies and The Importance of being Earnest From a Counterpoint of Wit and Sentiment to the Victory of the Absurd.  Chapter IV in Pestka: Oscar Wilde: Between Æstheticism and Anticipation of Modernism. Torún: Uniwersytetu Nikolaja Kopernika 1999.

49.  Desmond Traynor: Modes of Subversion in Wilde's The Importance of being Earnest and Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.  Dublin: Alumnus: Academic Journal of the Graduate Students' Union, Trinity College 1999-2000, republished in THE OSCHOLARS vol. III no. 3 March 2003.

50.  Christopher Suhal Nassaar: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead.  Washington DC: Explicator 58 pp.91-2, 2000.

51.  Kerstin Jütting: Viktorianische Gesellschaft in Wildes 'The Importance of Being Earnest' und 'An Ideal Husband'. GRIN Verlag (e-book) 2002

 

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