The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 154844507X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 114 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations.. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde
"In short, there is material aplenty here for the average reader and considerable matter for the specialist." --English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Stay away from Dover Thrift Version The Dover Thrift edition is a highly abridged version. There are entire scenes and characters missing. And the ending is abruptly cut short. Spend the extra money on finding an edition with complete Oscar Wilde text.. Bonus is editor's inclusion of the scenario for The Importance of Being Earnest Excellent edition for Peter Raby's introductions to all the plays and Wilde's original scenario for The Importance of Being Earnest. Line numbers as well are a nice touch.For literary criticism of The Importance of Being Earnest see Raby's own Companion to the play. If you're really in deep, go for Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, for his selection of essays devoted to Earnest. Here is a distillation of Ian Gregor's conclusion:What distinguishes Shakespeare and Jonson from . "If humour comes in a spectrum and slapstick is at one end of that spectrum, then this is the other end." according to Brohovsky. It would be all too easy to dismiss this play as a light romantic comedy. Although it is about a series of near thwarted romances – the stuff of a million ‘chick-flicks’ and romantic comedies going back as far as the eye can see in drama – this is also something much, much more. It is also a delightfully amusing commentary on human sexual relations, the English class system and (much more importantly) a perfect mirror on the amusing excesses of human selfishness. I
He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. . Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playw