The Importance of Being Earnest Summary
Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Born in Dublin in 1854, Oscar Wilde was the son of the distinguished surgeon Sir William Wilde and of Jane Francesca Elgee, a feminist and ardent prop... Read more

Biography Essay] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the B... Read more

"Famous for his public speaking and wit, [Oscar] Wilde has often been accused of merely reproducing witty repartee in his plays, and the temptation to treat his work lightly is in large part due to hi... Read more

Few writers have managed to remain world famous without the support of the schools. Oscar Wilde is one of them. Not generally regarded by academics as major or important, Wilde's work has figured ve... Read more

Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond ... Read more

Oscar Wilde 's literary reputation rests primarily on his later plays and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Although he published only fourteen short stories and six prose poems, a me... Read more

In the following review of The Importance of Being Earnest, the critic praises the play as lighthearted. This three-act farce, one of the latest productions of Oscar Wilde, which has been running s... Read more

In the following essay, Stone examines the metalinguistic aspects of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. A meta-language is a language you use to deal with given statements and their re... Read more

In the following essay, Sammells links Tom Stoppard's play Travesties with Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. David Rod has argued in Modern Drama that critics of Stoppard... Read more

In the following essay, Mackie proposes the obituaries as a source for the name Bunbury, a character in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Sometime in late July 1894 Oscar Wilde wrote ... Read more

A comedic movie, play, or book should have more importance in the world than they do. On any given night if someone were to watch the news or read the newspaper they would see just how dire a... Read more

Oscar Wilde began writing the script for The Importance of Being Earnest with the intent of directing it to a live audience; little did he know that one day it would be directed to be pre-recorded on ... Read more

The aim of most playwrights is to convey a message of interest or concern to their audience in order to educate them on issues faced in society, positioning them to form their own opinion on the issue... Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy of manners, whereby Oscar Wilde uses satire to ridicule marriage, love and the mentality of the Victorian aristocratic society. It can also be referred to a... Read more