La Importancia de Llamarse Ernesto. El Abanico de Lady Windermere (Obra de Teatro) / The Importance of Being Earnest. Lady Windermere's Fan (a Play)

Dos obras imprescindibles del teatro ingl廥 del siglo XIX.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) es para muchos la figura emblem嫢ica del dandi ingl廥. Pero esa imagen del artista del esteticismo extremado tambi幯 se vincula a la figura perseguida por la doble moral dominante de su tiempo. Durante d嶰adas despu廥 de su muerte, Wilde fue objeto de controversia y, a pesar de la condena judicial y moral a la que fue sometido, el inter廥 del plico por su obra no decreci?

Su producci鏮 abarca casi todos los g幯eros literarios (novela, cuento, ensayo, poes燰), pero es en sus obras teatrales donde despliega todo su talento art疄tico, como lo demuestran La importancia de llamarse Ernesto y El abanico de Lady Windermere. Wilde se sirvi?en ellas de las convenciones y temas del teatro de su tiempo, especialmente del melodrama y de la comedia de costumbres del teatro cl嫳ico ingl廥, pero, gracias al ingenio verbal que le caracterizaba y a su singular capacidad para re甏se de la realidad circundante sin causar la reacci鏮 negativa del plico, logr?trascender sus modelos y dignificar un g幯ero que se hallaba en decadencia art疄tica.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Two essential works of 19th-century English theater.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is widely regarded as the emblematic figure of the English dandy. Yet this image of an artist devoted to extreme aestheticism is also tied to a man persecuted by the dominant double standards of his time. For decades after his death, Wilde remained a controversial figure, and despite the moral and legal condemnation he faced, public interest in his work never waned.

His literary output spans nearly every genre (novel, short story, essay, poetry), but it's in his plays that Wilde's artistic brilliance truly shines, as seen in The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan. Drawing on the conventions and themes of his era's theater--especially melodrama and the comedy of manners from classic English drama--Wilde used his signature wit and unique ability to satirize reality without alienating audiences to elevate and revitalize a genre in artistic decline.