The Importance of Being Earnest

Name: The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde

Comic play of mistaken identities and witty repartee about engagement

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Oscar Wilde

The supreme wit of Victorian drama, Wilde wrote comedies that concealed profound social criticism behind brilliant epigrams. His imprisonment for homosexuality gave him the subject of The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis. The Importance of Being Earnest is the greatest comedy in the English language.

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