The Importance of Being Earnest
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Автор: Oscar Wilde
Язык: Английский
Издательство: Книга по Требованию
Год: 2014
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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious person? to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play. Nineteenth Century British: It will be welcomed by students and lovers of literature and drama, and any admirer of the incomparable Oscar Wilde.