'An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant'
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L&M
'Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisbale'
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L&M
'It is very romantic to be in love, but there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal'/'The very essence of romance is uncertainty'
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L&M
'It is a divine name, it has a music of its own, it produces vibrations'
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L&M
'What wonderfully blue eyes you have, they are quite blue blue blue!'/'I hope you will always look at me like that'
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L&M
'Do you mean to say you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Earnest'
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L&M
'Nothing she can possibly do can alter my eternal devotion to you'
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Aestheticism
'The Aesthetic Movement' of 19th/20th C, emphasises aesthetic values, art should exist for beauty and pleasure, not a vehicle for a moral message.
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The Aesthetic Movement
Art has a beautiful rather than deeper, philosophical meaning. Social/political themes for literature are irrelevant, instead artistic style was experimental, sensual and a scandal of immorality.
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Gender/Women
'The truth isn't quite right for the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl'/'What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman'
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G&W
'I'd sooner have a pink rose'/'Because you are like a pink rose'
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G&W
'I am really only eighteen, but i always admit to twenty when i go to evening parties'
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Dual Identity, Deceit
'I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest'
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D.I
'It is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth, it is the first time in my life i have been reduced to such a painful position.'/'I am really quite inexperienced in doing any of the kind'
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D.I
'You have invented a very useful younger brother called Earnest in order you come to town as you like'
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D.I
'Placed in position of guardian one has to adopt a very high moral tone, its ones duty'/'A high moral tone can be said to conduce hardly to one's happiness and health'
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Society
'If the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?'/'They seem as a class to have no sense of moral responsibility'
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Society
'Sugar is not fashionable anymore'/'Cake is rarely seen at the best houses nowadays'
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Society
'I had no idea that there were any families of persons whose origin was a Terminus'
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Oscar Wilde
'We should treat all trivial tings of life seriously, and all serious things of life with sincere and studies triviality'
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Wilde
Outed publicly as gay in 1895, reputation was damaged, arrested for 'gross indecency', suffered ill heath in prison.
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Drawing room play
Action takes place in the drawing room, place of entertainment, 'Comedy of Manners'
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Bennett&Royle's Laughter Theory
Broad comic scope, humor isn't always anticipated, physical comedy, doesn't need to rely on popular culture references
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Critics: Adrian Noble, 2015 play adaptation
Michael Billington 'Reminds us Lady Bracknell contains a certain impishness beneath her elegantly frocked hauteur' David Suchet as Lady Bracknell, man playing a powerful woman?
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Front
L&M
Back
'Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisbale'
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