by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423974832
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«La importancia de llamarse Ernesto» is the theatrical comedy by Oscar Wilde, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Two English gentlemen, Jack and Algernon, each invent an alter ego named Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily, two women determined to marry only someone with that name. The entanglements multiply when both Ernests coincide at Jack's country house and their lies begin to unravel. The play satirizes with brilliant dialogue the hypocrisy, appearances, and conventions of Victorian society, and its ending holds a secret that explains everything.
The edition also includes «El abanico de Lady Windermere», edited by Fernando Galván, and belongs to the Austral collection.
Recommended for readers seeking a classic of English theatre with situational humour and verbal wit, as well as for those who want to discover Oscar Wilde's satirical universe in Spanish.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
