Wilde, Oscar: 1854-1900
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895 - Information about the Book
- General Information
- Both main characters are artificial because they both put on a performance, or pretend to be Ernest. Theh play aims to demonstrate that artificiality should be morally neutral because every human being is required to be artificial in life.
- Information from Wikipedia
- Information from StageAgent
- Facts
- Wilde said the moral of the play is "That we should treat all trivial things very seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality." from MPR.
- Character List
- Important Quotations Explained
- Article
- Wilde, Society, and Society Drama. An essay mostly about the plays relation to Wilde's life and the society that he moved in by Cary M. Mazer
- Synchronicity and the Trickster in The Importance of Being Earnest. Clifton Snider California State University, Long Beach
- Comic Effects
- James Taylor talks about the 2005 Abbey Theatre, Dublin, performance. KCRW; January 26, 2006
- Pictures