The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde's 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 Wilde's name is synonymous, the play follows two young men, Algernon and Jack, as they come to grips with one another's 'Bunburying' – deceits involving invented... Zobrazit více