The Importance of Being Earnest, subtitled 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, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband. 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 two young women of their affections.
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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 two young women of their affections.
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The Importance of Being Earnest, subtitled 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, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband.
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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 (
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