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Part One: Creation and Reception<br/>1 Lady Windermere's Fan (1891-93)<br/>2 A Woman of No Importance (1892-93) *<br/>3 An Ideal Husband (1894-95)<br/>4 The Importance of Being Earnest (1894-1900)<br/>Part Two: Contemporary Reviews<br/>1 On Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)<br/>Sunday Times, p. 47 - Daily Telegraph, p. 48 - WILLIAM ARCHER,<br/>p. 49.<br/>2 On A Woman of No Importance (1893)<br/>Daily News, p. 51 — Sunday Times, p. 52 — Observer, p. 52 —<br/>WILLIAM ARCHER, p. 53 - W. MOY THOMAS, p. 57.<br/>3 On An Ideal Husband (1895)<br/>Morning Advertiser, p. 59 - Morning Post, p. 60 - Sketch, p. 60.<br/>4 On The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)<br/>The Times, p. 62 - Daily Telegraph, p. 63 - Daily Graphic, p. 63 -<br/>Observer, p. 65 - WILLIAM ARCHER, p. 66.<br/>MAX BEERBOHM (1900, 1904, 1909), p. 69 - J.T. GREIN (1901),<br/>p. 74 - 'LEONARD CRESSWELL INGLEBY', (1907), p. 75 -<br/>ARCHIBALD HENDERSON (1907), p. 78 - C.E. MONTAGUE (1908),<br/>pp. 80 - ST JOHN HANKIN (1908), pp. 85 - P.P. HOWE (1911),<br/>p. 90 - ARTHUR RANSOME( 1912), p. 91 - A.B. VVALKLEV (1923),<br/>p. 95 - JOHN DRINKWATER (1923), p. 97 - ASHLEY DUKES<br/>(1923), pp. 99 - VINCENT O'SULLIVAN (1936), pp. 99 - ERIC<br/>BE.NTLEY (1946), pp. 102 - A.E. DYSON (1965), pp. 105 - JOHN<br/>RUSSELL TAYLOR (1967), pp. 107.<br/>Part Four: Modem Critical Studies<br/>IAN GREGOR: Comedy and Oscar Wilde (1966)<br/>ARTHUR GANZ: The Divided Self in the Society<br/>Comedies of Oscar Wilde (1960)<br/>RODNEY SHEWAN: Lady Windermere's Fan —<br/>The Critic as Dramatist (1977)<br/>CHRISTOPHER NASSAAR: On A Woman ofNo Importance<br/>(1974)<br/>OTTO REINERT: Satiric Strategy in Tke Importance of<br/>Being Earnest (1956)<br/>RICHARD FOSTER: Wilde as Parodist - A Second Look<br/>at The Importance of Being Earnest (1956)<br/>DAVID PARKER: Oscar Wilde's Great Farce (1974) |