The Importance of Being Earnest

We’ve been reading The Importance of being Earnest by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde. This short play, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, as its author called it, was first performed in 1895 in London. A comedy, plenty of witty dialogues, in which Wilde creates ambiguous situations with a hilarious result. The protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape their boring obligations. Wilde laughs at the socials conventions of late Victorian London and builds up a satire of Victorian ways.

It is worth watching Oscar Wilde’s biography as well as reading 10 Facts You Should Know About Oscar Wilde and The 15 wittiests things Oscar Wilde ever said.

This is the film we’ll be watching in class after the hard week of exams is coming: