Dec 17, 2009

The Importance of Being Earnest | The Importance of Being Earnest

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Author: Oscar Wilde
First Published: 1899
Type of Work: Play
Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
Setting: London and Hertfordshire
Genres: Drama, Comedy, Comedy of manners
Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, England or English people, Victorian era or Victorianism, Nobility
Locales: London, England, Hertfordshire, England

Characters Discussed

Algernon (Algy) Moncrief, a young man of fashion and considerable worldly charm. He is a confirmed Bunburyist; that is, he uses an imaginary sick friend’s name and condition as an excuse to leave London when he finds his aristocratic aunt, Lady Bracknell, too domineering or her dinner parties too dull. He delights in the artificial, the trivial, and the faddish, and he employs them for his own amusement, the only thing about which, as he insists, he is ever serious. Out for a jape, he poses as John Worthing’s fictitious brother Ernest to court his...

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The Importance of Being Earnest | The Importance of Being Earnest

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