In this Launchpad, you will have the opportunity to analyze the language, characters, and structure of The Importance of Being Earnest.
This irreverence takes its most perfect form in the dozens of epigrams and witticisms that make up so much of the play’s dialogue. The play constantly pokes fun at conventionally serious topics like love, death, and religion, while simultaneously handling trivialities (e.g., which teatime snacks are trendy this season) with the utmost seriousness. Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest derives much of its comedic and thematic heft from the way in which it inverts the values of everyday life. Oscar Wilde, from a January 1895 interview with Robbie Ross, published in the St. |1 .i71055320 |b 1200001881687 |d subnf |g - |m |h 6 |x 2 |t 0 |i 2 |j 9 |k 120322 |n 08-09-2022 16:19 |o - |a 822.“ is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy…That we should treat all the trivial things of life very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” |a England |x Social life and customs |y 19th century |0 |v Drama. |a Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality. |t Introduction - |t Chronology - |t Salomé - |t Lady Windermere's fan - |t Importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people - |t Appendix: |t Gribsby episode in The importance of being earnest - |t Afterword. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-201). |a This edition features an appendix that restores lines that appeared in the original four-act play. |a New York : |b Signet Classics, |c 2012. |a The importance of being earnest and other plays / |c Oscar Wilde with an introduction by Sylvan Barnet and a new afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer.
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