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The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

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Marriage and Victorian convention on stage

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Marriage and Victorian convention on stage

First performed in London in 1895, Oscar Wilde’s play turns its attention to marriage and the social expectations surrounding it. The supplied description frames the comedy as a challenge to Victorian morals, assumptions, and constraints, placing the institution of marriage within a wider critique of its era’s values. Wilde’s own public life became entangled with Victorian scrutiny, though that biographical context is distinct from the play’s stated subject. This edition presents the work as a classic of the theatre, with its central concerns rooted in social convention and the purpose assigned to marriage.

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  • Readers interested in classic plays and Oscar Wilde’s theatre
  • Readers exploring Victorian social values and attitudes toward marriage

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Marriage and social conventionVictorian morals and assumptionsTheatre and social critique

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Book overview

Read & Co. Classics presents this brand new edition of Oscar Wilde's famous play, "The Importance of Being Earnest", first performed in London in 1895. The play questions the nature and purpose of the institution of marriage, poking fun at the morals, assumptions and constraints found in Victorian values. During the play's release, Wilde's social life was aired to the Victorian public after an altercation with his lover's father, resulting in him being sent to prison for his homosexual relationship. Oscar Wilde (1884-1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. He moved from Dublin to Oxford where he studied under renowned art critics Walter Pater and John Ruskin and became associated with the literary and philosophical movement of Aestheticism.
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