The one essential fact about Mr Oscar Wilde's dramatic work is that it must be taken on the very highest plane of modern English drama, and, furthermore, that it stands alone on that plane. In intellectual calibre, artistic competence - and in dramatic instinct - Mr Wilde has no rival among his fellowworkers for the stage.

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece,The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy.The edition afffords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention.

Wilde's plays have never failed to delight audiences and are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit and theatrical genius.

Vera； or, The Nihilists

The Duchess of Padua

Salome

Lady Windermere's Fan

A Woman of No Importance

An Ideal Husband

The Importance of Being Earnest

La Sainte Courtisane

A Florentine Tragedy

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