Oscar Wildes 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 wrongwith pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was writtenIn addition to Wildes five major plays this Signet Classics edition contains Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career in which Wilde discusses his workand his critics Some of his most brilliant critical writing in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of todays literary theory An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of The Importance of Being EarnestWith an Introduction by Sylvan Barnetand a New Afterword by Marylu Hill