The Importance of Being Ernest
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- The Importance of Being Ernest
- By Oscar Wilde
- Born 1854-1900 Died
- An Irish playwright, novelist and poet.
- First performed on the 14th February 1895 at the St James's Theatre, London.
- It is a farcical comedy
- Farcical
- Adjective
- Synonyms: ridiculous, preposterous, ludacrous
- Adjective
- Farcical
- Gwendolyn Fairfax
- Gwendolyn suggests the qualities of a conventional Victorian woman. She has ideas and ideals, attends lectures and is concerned with self improvement. She is also artificial and pretentious.
- Gwendolyn is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Earnest, and is fixated on the name. Gwendolyn is so caught up in finding a husband names Ernest, that she can't even see that the man calling himself Ernest is deceiving her.
- By Oscar Wilde
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