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Oscar Wilde�s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong�with pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was written. In addition to Wilde�s five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains: � Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work�and his critics � Some of his most brilliant critical writing, in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of today�s literary theory � An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of The Importance of Being Earnest With an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and a New Afterword by Marylu Hill