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The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde ( - ). First performed on 14 February in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain a made up personae to escape burdensome social obligations. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People book eBook: Wilde, Oscar: www.doorway.ru: Kindle Store.  · Introduction. Oscar Wile terms The Importance of Being Earnest, a trivial comedy for serious people. Wilde's term is itself a pun. A pun is a literary device which creates a humorous effect by the use of the word which has a fleet of different meanings.

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Oscar Wilde. L. Smithers, - England - pages. Reviews. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” Wilde’s play is a brilliantly satirical comedy of manners, sending up the. Flamboyant wit and man-about-town, Wilde had a reputation that preceded him, especially in his early career. After publishing two volumes of short stories between and , his social-comedy plays such as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest established his critical and commercial success. In Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct and died in Paris in obscurity a few years after his release. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde Wilde.