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A serious comedy for trivial people
- Title
- A serious comedy for trivial people, by Oscar Wilde.
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
- Publication
- 1894.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | Arents S 1534 no. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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- Additional Authors
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
- Description
- 3 v. ([70], [28], [84] l.); 22-24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Episode of Jack's cigarette case: vol. 1, leaves [20-25].
- Holograph, comprising Acts I-II of the original four-act version of The importance of being earnest. For transcription of both acts and facsim of Act II, see Arents S 1534, no. 3.
- Title altered from: A trivial comedy for serious people.
- Title in vol. 3: Lady Lancing. Act II (altered from: Act III).
- With author's ms. emendations, deletions, etc., in the text and on facing blank pages.
- Revised three-act version published under title The importance of being earnest. London, 1899.
- Included in three notebooks of 90, 86 (4 leaves excised) and 112 (one leaf excised) leaves respectively; remaining leaves are blank, except for 5 leaves of vol. 3 which contain holograph drafts of passages from La sainte courtisane.
- Call Number
- Arents S 1534 no. 1
- OCLC
- NYPG804332081-B
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
- Title
- A serious comedy for trivial people, by Oscar Wilde.
- Imprint
- 1894.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest.Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Sainte courtisane.
- Research Call Number
- Arents S 1534 no. 1