The Importance of Being Earnest
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2021
Summary
The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s most popular play. Since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the journalist Mark Lawson, is ‘the second most known and quoted play in English after Hamlet’.
Brimming with the counter-intuitive wit with which Wilde’s name is synonymous, the play follows two young men, Algernon and Jack, as they come to grips with one another’s ‘Bunburying’ – deceits inv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913724054 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913724050 |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde |
| Publisher: | Renard Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Renard Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 199mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘A deliciously witty play about dual identities, Victorian mores and an unforgettable handbag.’ (The Guardian) ‘An extraordinarily illuminating intellect.’ (William Rothenstein) ‘If I craved for entertaining conversation by a first-class raconteur, I should choose Oscar Wilde.’ (George Bernard Shaw)
About The Author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an author, poet, and one of the best-known playwrights in the English canon. His private life is widely discussed, since his sexuality and relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas led to his conviction for ‘gross indecency’. He was sentenced to two years’ hard labour. While in prison, he wrote De Profundis, a letter to Douglas describing the trials of his incarceration, which was eventually published in expurgated form. He is best remembered today for his short-story collections for children, The Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates, his poetry, especially The Ballad of Reading Gaol, his novel Dorian Gray, and his plays – particularly Salome and his drawing-room and society comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest.
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