CONTENTS

PAGE
PART I
[Oscar Wilde: The Man]3
PART II
[The Modern Playwright]
[The Dramatist]95
["Lady Windermere's Fan"]104
["A Woman Of No Importance"]119
["The Ideal Husband"]129
["The Importance Of Being Earnest"]149
PART III
[The Romantic Dramas]
["Salomé"]161
["The Duchess of Padua"]191
["Vera, or the Nihilists"]207
["The Florentine Tragedy"]215
["The Woman Covered With Jewels"]220
PART IV
[The Writer of Fairy Stories]
[The Fairy Stories]227
PART V
[The Poet]
[Poems]245
PART VI
[The Fiction Writer]
[Fiction]301
PART VII
[The Philosophy of Beauty]331
PART VIII
[De Profundis]359
[INDEX]397

PART I

OSCAR WILDE: THE MAN