Importance of Being Earnest - A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze
Výrobce: Renard Press Ltd
EAN: 9781913724054
Výrobní číslo: 9781913724054
The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wildes most popular play - since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the journalist Mark Lawson, is the second most known and quoted play in English after Hamlet.
Brimming with the counter-intuitive wit with which Wildes name is synonymous, the play follows two young men, Algernon and Jack, as they come to grips with one anothers Bunburying - deceits involving invented identities and escaping unwanted socialising - which spiral out of control. Culminating in a hauntingly brilliant scene with a cast of characters dripping with satire, an unpublished manuscript and an unforgettable handbag, The Importance of Being Earnest lambasts the Victorian yearning for morality and meaning, and leaves the reader aching
Brimming with the counter-intuitive wit with which Wildes name is synonymous, the play follows two young men, Algernon and Jack, as they come to grips with one anothers Bunburying - deceits involving invented identities and escaping unwanted socialising - which spiral out of control. Culminating in a hauntingly brilliant scene with a cast of characters dripping with satire, an unpublished manuscript and an unforgettable handbag, The Importance of Being Earnest lambasts the Victorian yearning for morality and meaning, and leaves the reader aching
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