SOURCE: Parker, David. “Oscar Wilde's Great Farce: The Importance of Being Earnest.” Modern Literature Quarterly 35, no. 2 (June 1974): 173-86.
In the following essay, Parker offers a thematic and stylistic examination of The Importance of Being Earnest and places it within the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century farces.
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