Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This collection offers newly edited texts of "Lady Windermere`s Fan", "A Woman of No Importance", "Salome", "An Ideal Husband", and, arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, "The Importance of Being Earnest".