by Oscar Wilde · Editorial Astri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446908609
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«La importancia de llamarse Ernesto» is Oscar Wilde's theatrical farce, published by Editorial Astri in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
Two gentlemen of Victorian England, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, adopt the false name of Ernesto to court Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The misunderstanding complicates when both coincide and the young women believe they love the same man, in a farce of crossed identities that satirizes the morality and appearances of their era.
Play originally premiered in 1895. This Spanish edition dates from 2000. Original title: The Importance of Being Earnest.
For those who enjoy classics of theatre and comedy of errors: a brief work, with agile dialogue and common in school readings.
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.
