Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Importance Of Being Earnest (ShandonPress) - cover

The Importance Of Being Earnest (ShandonPress)

Oscar Wilde, Shandon Press

Publisher: Oscar Wilde

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ 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. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
Available since: 10/13/2016.

Other books that might interest you

  • No-No Boy - cover

    No-No Boy

    Ken Narasaki

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aftermath of the U.S. government's incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II, and the resettlement of Japanese Americans to the West Coast. In the play, Ichiro returns to Seattle, where he struggles to transition into post-war life.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in January 2021.No-No Boy is sponsored in part by the California Civil Liberties Program from the California State Library.Directed by Anna Lyse EriksonProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergKurt Kanazawa as TaroEmily Kuroda as Mrs. Kanno and Mrs. KumasakaJohn Miyasaki as Freddie and othersKen Narasaki as Kenji, Kumasaka-san and othersSharon Omi as MaJoy Osmanski as Emi, 2ASab Shimono as PaGreg Watanabe as IchiroPaul Yen as Eto, Jun and othersSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonPrepared for audio by Mark HoldenSound design by Mark Holden and Neil WogensonRecording Engineers: Charles Carroll and Neil WogensonMixed by Charles Carroll and Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerEditor: Neil Wogenson
    Show book
  • The Blacks - A Clown Show - cover

    The Blacks - A Clown Show

    Jean Genet

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    An English translation of Genet’s classic symbolic drama, first performed in Paris in 1959.   France’s master of the absurd explores racial prejudice and stereotypes using the framework of a play within a play. The New York Times hailed The Blacks as “one of the most original and stimulating evenings Broadway or Off Broadway has to offer,” while Newsweek raved that Genet’s plays “constitute a body of work unmatched for poetic and theatrical power.”   “Genet’s investigation of the color black begins where most plays of this burning theme leave off. . . . This vastly gifted Frenchman uses shocking words and images to cry out at the pretensions and injustices of our world.” —Howard Taubman, The New York Times
    Show book
  • Belfry Pigeon - cover

    Belfry Pigeon

    Nathaniel Parker Willis

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day. For a time, he was the employer of former slave and future writer Harriet Jacobs. - Summary by Wikipedia
    Show book
  • Victorian Poetry Volume 3 - cover

    Victorian Poetry Volume 3

    Alice Meynell, William Makepeace...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Victorian Poetry – Volume 3 - An Introduction.  Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of their poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world renowned – Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some almost forgotten – Patmore, Newbolt, Synge.  And some barely noted – Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith.  But together they encompass a great poetical age.  In Volume 3 we collect together Alice Meynell to WB Yeats.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.
    Show book
  • The Suitcase Kid (NHB Modern Plays) - stage version - cover

    The Suitcase Kid (NHB Modern...

    Jacqueline Wilson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.
Ten-year-old Andy used to live happily at Mulberry Cottage with her family: Mum, Dad, and Radish the rabbit, who lives in Andy's pocket and shares all her secrets. But then it all went wrong: Mum went to live with Bill, and Dad went off with Carrie. And Andy is expected to shuttle between the two - living out of a suitcase - and come to terms with her strange new families.
Seen all over the country, this resourceful dramatisation is suitable for young actors as well as young audiences. The adapter, Vicky Ireland, has provided production notes to indicate how the play can be staged even with minimal resources - plus a lot of ingenuity!
'A real theatrical treat... the audience of school parties fell quiet as mice and raptly attentive the second the lights went down' - Scarborough Evening News
    Show book
  • I see His Blood upon the Rose - cover

    I see His Blood upon the Rose

    Joseph Mary Plunkett

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of I see His Blood upon the Rose by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 9th, 2008.
    Show book