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Cover: 9788028339104 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Taschenbuch | Englisch
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The Importance of Being Earnest
A Victorian Comedy of Manners of Mistaken Identity, Double Lives, and London Society Satire
Taschenbuch von Oscar Wilde
Sprache: Englisch

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The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's most dazzling comedy of manners, a farcical yet exacting satire of late Victorian respectability. Through the double lives of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, the play exposes the absurdities beneath social decorum, courtship, class consciousness, and moral earnestness itself. Wilde's style is epigrammatic, paradoxical, and exquisitely artificial, placing him within the tradition of Restoration comedy while also anticipating modernist skepticism toward stable identity and social truth. Oscar Wilde, Irish-born poet, dramatist, critic, and wit, wrote the play at the height of his theatrical success in 1895. His own experience as both insider and outsider in London society sharpened his eye for hypocrisy, performance, and coded desire. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, Wilde transformed aestheticism into a public persona, and this play distills his brilliance into dramatic form just before his catastrophic trials. Readers seeking comedy with intellectual bite will find The Importance of Being Earnest inexhaustibly rewarding. It is not merely amusing but structurally elegant, linguistically virtuosic, and socially incisive-a masterpiece for anyone interested in wit, theatricality, and the comic dismantling of convention.
The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's most dazzling comedy of manners, a farcical yet exacting satire of late Victorian respectability. Through the double lives of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, the play exposes the absurdities beneath social decorum, courtship, class consciousness, and moral earnestness itself. Wilde's style is epigrammatic, paradoxical, and exquisitely artificial, placing him within the tradition of Restoration comedy while also anticipating modernist skepticism toward stable identity and social truth. Oscar Wilde, Irish-born poet, dramatist, critic, and wit, wrote the play at the height of his theatrical success in 1895. His own experience as both insider and outsider in London society sharpened his eye for hypocrisy, performance, and coded desire. Educated at Trinity College Dublin and Oxford, Wilde transformed aestheticism into a public persona, and this play distills his brilliance into dramatic form just before his catastrophic trials. Readers seeking comedy with intellectual bite will find The Importance of Being Earnest inexhaustibly rewarding. It is not merely amusing but structurally elegant, linguistically virtuosic, and socially incisive-a masterpiece for anyone interested in wit, theatricality, and the comic dismantling of convention.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028339104
ISBN-10: 8028339107
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wilde, Oscar
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 6 mm
Von/Mit: Oscar Wilde
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.11.2023
Gewicht: 0,157 kg
Artikel-ID: 128159936
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