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The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most popular play today, enduring thanks to its easy humor, witty dialog, and clever satire. It was also one of his more successful plays, despite its first run being prematurely ended after only 86 performances. The main characters pretend to be other people in order to escape social obligations, with the resulting confusion of identities driving the plot and the humor behind it.
Earnest also holds the sad distinction of being Wilde’s last published play. A feud with an aristocrat whose son was Wilde’s lover led to a court case revealing Wilde as a homosexual—a crime in those days, and punishable by imprisonment with hard labor.
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Victorian, 19th centuryShowing 11 featured editions. View all 445 editions?
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
2016, Wisehouse Classics
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
2010, Broadview Press
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The Importance of Being Earnest
2006, Prestwick House, Prestwick House Inc.
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The Importance of Being Earnest: and Other Plays
2005, Pocket Books
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The importance of being earnest
2005, ICON Classics
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- Webster's French Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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The importance of being earnest
2005, ICON Classics
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
1895, S. French
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Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play. - Wikipedia
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