The Importance of Being Earnest

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title: The Importance of Being Earnest
text: The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy depicting the tangled affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest while wooing the t
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description: Play (farcical comedy) by Oscar Wilde
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date created: 2001-11-02T17:38:24Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T14:34:30Z
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