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"Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Earnest, while Algernon has also posed as Earnest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend--the "rivals" to fight for Earnest's undivided attention and the "Earnests" to claim their beloveds--pandemonium breaks loose"--P. [4] of cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
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"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays" brings together Oscar Wilde's most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde's plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend...
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2008.
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An adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," in which Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Ernest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love. Includes activities and information about the author.
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[2003]
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Oscar Wilde' s legendary wit dazzles in "The Importance of Being Earnest," one of the greatest and most popular works of drama to emerge from Victorian England. A light-hearted satire of the absurdity of all forms and conventions, this comic masterpiece features an unforgettable cast of characters who, as critic Max Beerbohm observed, " speak a kind of beautiful nonsense- the language of high comedy, twisted into fantasy." This collection also includes...
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"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wild. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St Jame's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae 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,...