On Oscar Wilde S The Importance Of Being Earnest

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781467756549

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0225659026

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0435233033

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Theatre program.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : NHB Classic Plays
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : England
ISBN : 185459589X

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Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

All four of Wilde's famous plays in one bargain-priced volume.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798639893452

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde the New Annotated Literary Version by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Importance of Being Earnest was popular upon its debut in 1895. It was not until the twentieth century that Wilde's work was once again recognized both for its literary worth and comedic genius, and subsequently The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted many times for film and theatre, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Dame Judy Dench.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798639893551

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The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde The New Annotated Edition by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Importance of Being Earnest was popular upon its debut in 1895. It was not until the twentieth century that Wilde's work was once again recognized both for its literary worth and comedic genius, and subsequently The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted many times for film and theatre, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Dame Judy Dench.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781101560150

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde Pdf

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for butterflies,” it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment. Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original. Also included in this special collection are Wilde’s first comedy success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called “that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote”—and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time. Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517773113

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

A farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear chiefly upon the situations and the lines. It so happens that this farce contains more clever lines, puns, epigrams, and deft repartees than any other of modern times, but these are after all accessory. A farce may be written without these additions--it might well be pure pantomime. Wilde has thrown them in for full measure.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798656443791

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The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde "The Annotated Edition" by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar WildeThis lighthearted play tells the farcical tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Montcrieff-two men who falsely claim to be named Ernest when they fall in love with two women whose affections are illogically but irrevocably tied to the name.The Importance of Being Earnest was popular upon its debut in 1895. It was not until the twentieth century that Wilde's work was once again recognized both for its literary worth and comedic genius, and subsequently The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted many times for film and theatre, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Dame Judy Dench.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732658367

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A Florentine Tragedy by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Florentine Tragedy by Oscar Wilde

Author : Christoph Haug
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656341154

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About Oscar Wildes "The Importance of being Earnest" by Christoph Haug Pdf

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: With his great success The Importance of being Earnest, the Irish born Oscar Wilde created with his last work a masterpiece of modern comedy. In a perfect way of satirizing the Victorian norms, he criticizes the style of living in those days. In the play’s subtitle A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, he directly addresses the mainly upper class audience of his time. Therefore his intention was to make people think more deeply of the serious and the trivial things in life. But not only Wilde criticized others styles of life, he also has been criticized. Some of his works are addressing Victorian taboos for example handling with the theme of homosexuality and the coupled dandyism. Also he has been outlawed for his behavior in real life. His double life attitude, while having a family, leading a life of homosexuality, and his scandals with having sex with male prostitutes, brought him into prison. In the following I am going to depict the Victorian perception of art, as well as the Victorian norms and attitudes and the social behavior in the Victorian Age. Furthermore I will show in a detailed way the two main characters of the play Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing, who are living a double life, seeming to be very funny and absurd. After that I am going to define the word ‘Bunburying’ which is an expression that is one of the main points in the play. In the end I am going to show in which situations the main characters are using this method of leading a double life, proofed with examples of the play, showing at the two persons separately. [...]

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : England
ISBN : 0674048989

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The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Annotated Importance of Being Earnest provides facing-page commentary on Oscar Wilde's greatest play. Editor Nicholas Frankel highlights the play's relation to the author's homosexuality and to the climate of sexual repression that led to Wilde's imprisonment just months after the play's London opening in 1895.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724955594

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

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.

Author : Elizabeth Enright
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152022724

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Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright Pdf

Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.

Author : Bernadette Wonner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638759250

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Oscar Wilde: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Making Fun of Victorian Values and Society and Parodying Dramatic Conventions by Bernadette Wonner Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), LMU Munich (Anglistics), course: Advanced Seminar Literature Studies, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Die Arbeit untersucht, inwieweit Oscar Wildes Stück die Werte des Viktorianischen Zeitalters satirisch beleuchtet und dabei auch mit den damals gängigen dramatischen Konventionen bricht.