The importance of being Earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people / / Oscar Wilde

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155518903321
• Autore: Wilde Oscar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-304-73978-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Soggetti: Identity (Psychology); Foundlings; Young men; England Drama; London (England) Fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Importance of being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is Oscar Wilde's most popular and successful play. First performed in London in 1895, it ran for eighty-six performances. Wilde's play is a farcical romp in which the protagonists don fake personas to shirk the burdens of their social obligations. They are Algernon Moncrieff and Ernest Worthing, young gentlemen leading double lives. Algernon inquires why the cigarette case belonging to ""Ernest"" bears the name ""Jack."" Earnest confesses that while in the country taking care of his young ward Cecily, he's Jack; here he clai