The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

This book contains six plays. Lady Windermere's fan: a critique of conventional morality, A woman of no importance: exposes an aristocratic world that is smug, snobbish and morally bankrupt, An ideal husband: portrays a glittering diplomatic gathering which is revealed as a masquerade to cover up the shady past of a prominent establishment figure, The importance of being Earnest: every character is revealed to be leading a hypocritical double life, and Salomé and A Florentine tragedy, which use historical settings to explore issues of sex, gender and power.