The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

by Oscar Wilde

Publisher:

Leonard Smithers and Co

, 1899

Overview

Writing in the height of the aesthetic movement in Europe, Oscar Wilde rose to the pinnacle of popular society on both the strength of his writing’s biting social commentary and his glittering public persona. Considered by many to be Wilde’s magnum opus, The Importance of Being Earnest follows upper-class individuals who work around stringent Victorian social standards by creating fictitious personas. It satirizes Victorian culture by trivializing grave institutions like marriage.

Product Details

• Title: The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
• Author: Oscar Wilde
• Publisher: Leonard Smithers and Co
• Print Publication Date: 1899
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 176
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Identity (Psychology) › Drama; Foundlings › Drama; England › Drama
• Resource ID: LLS:MPRTNCBNGRNST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:38:34Z

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wilde’s parents were successful Dublin intellectuals, and their son showed his intelligence early by becoming fluent in French and German.