The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
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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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4.5
30 reviews
Robbi Tomsen
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August 9, 2023
what a cute story and the dialog is delightfully weird. What a delightful society of nonsense people is depicted here and their exquisitely ridiculous attitudes are both great fun and entertaining at the same time. A quick fast read I would love to see it on stage.
Chris Sparks
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May 4, 2023
Missing pages. The book does not scroll beyond the first few pages.
N Velasquez
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January 20, 2024
It was the funnest read I've had in years, can't believe I never read this before until now.
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