Michael Y Bennett

Oscar Wilde's Society Plays Michael Y Bennett 1st ed. 2015 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction: The Importance of Laughing in Earnest; Michael Y. BennettPART I: CONTEXTS1. Wit in Ernest: Wilde's Irish Word-Play; Jerusha McCormack2. The Tragicomedies of Oscar Wilde: A Wilde Response to Melodrama; Michael Y. Bennett3. Oscar Wilde's Unfinished Society Plays: Mr. and Mrs. Daventry, A Wife's Tragedy, and Love Is Law; Joseph Bristow4. Wilde's Comedic Takes on the New Woman: A Comparison with Ibsen and Shaw; Petra Dierkes-Thrun5. Three Comedies and a Funeral: The Endgame of The Importance of Being Earnest; Melissa Knox PART II: TEXTS6. Deconstructive Strategies in Wilde's Social Comedies: From Melodrama to Deconstruction; Steven Price7. Earnest in Name, But How Earnest in Manner?: Acting in Wilde's Comedy; Richard Allen Cave8. ." . . Would You Kindly Inform Me Who I Am?": Wilde's Comedies of Manners as Tragedies; Helena Gurfinkel9. "You will call me sister, will you not?": Friendship, Solidarity, and Conflict between Women in Wilde's Society Plays; Helen Davies10. Modern Ontologics and the Impotence of Being Earnest; S. I. SalamenskyBiographical Note: Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. He is author of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011); Words, Space, and the Audience (2012); and Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012). He is the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome (2011) and the co-editor of Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012).

Contributor Bio:  Bennett, Michael Y Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, where he teaches courses on modern drama. He is the author of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011), Words, Space, and the Audience (2012) and Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012); the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde's Salome (2011); and the co-editor of Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012). He is also Editor of The Edward Albee Review.