Reviews for Wilde: Complete Plays

The average rating for Wilde: Complete Plays based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-06 00:00:00 william jacob ⚫ Vera; or, The Nihilists: 3/5 ⚫ The Duchess of Padua: 3/5 ⚫ Salomé: 4/5 ⚫ Lady Windermere's Fan: 4/5 ⚫ A Woman of No Importance: 3/5 ⚫ An Ideal Husband: 3.7/5 ⚫ The Importance of Being Earnest: 5/5 ''Cecily (sweetly): Sugar? Gwendolen (superciliously): No, thank you. Sugar is not fashionable any more. Cecily looks angrily at her, takes up the tongs and puts four lumps of suger into the cup. Cecily (severely): Cake or bread and butter? Gwendolen (in a bored manner): Bread and butter, please. Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays. Cecily (cuts a very large slice of cake and puts it on the tray): Hand that to Miss Fairfax.'' Cecily: I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that bitch. ⚫ La Sainte Courtisane: 4/5 ⚫ A Florentine Tragedy: 2.5/5

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-09 00:00:00 Teresa Gerstacker {rereading Lady Windermere's Fan, Feb. 2016} I am altering my rating of this play from 4* (see below) to 4½* -- I had forgotten how many wonderful lines there were in the dialogue of this play. These raise it up but I still don't think it is as good as my favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest so I can't give it 5*. {review from 2012} I find it difficult to rate collections, as the individual parts almost always vary in quality. For this collection, I thought that I would give a very brief review & a rating for each play... Lady Windermere's Fan - 4 stars; funny play about the importance (or lack thereof) of appearances re married women & their virtue Salomé - 3 stars; I like the satire but the Biblical setting just wasn't my thing. A Woman of No Importance - 2½ stars; to be quite honest, this play made so little impression on me that I can't remember what it is about! Time to reread it. August 2016 reread 3½ stars; social commentary about the uneven (unfair) way society & religion treat men & women has some great lines but lacks the light touch Wilde shows in his best plays. An Ideal Husband - 4½ stars; very good satire about trust & love between a married couple. The Importance of Being Earnest - 5 stars; so hilariously funny. My favorite of all Wilde' s work