by Oscar Wilde · Methuen · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780413310002
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«The Importance of Being Earnest» is Oscar Wilde's theatrical comedy, published by Methuen in paperback (73 pages, in English).
Comedy that satirises the hypocrisy and conventions of Victorian society. Jack and Algernon use the name Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily; the tangle arises when both confess to being in love with that name. The misunderstandings multiply and the play ridicules the moral seriousness of the era with brilliant dialogue.
Originally published in 1895, the play bears the subtitle 'A Trivial Play for Serious People'.
It is suitable reading for fans of classical theatre, satirical comedy and Victorian literature.
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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.
