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.<div> </div><div>In addition to Wilde’s five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains:</div><div> </div><div>• Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work—and his critics</div><div>• 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</div><div>• An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i></div><p></p><div>With an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet</div><div>and a New Afterword by Marylu Hill</div>