“If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.”Ah, Mr Wilde can always be counted on to make me laugh, to poke fun at the ridiculousness of human behaviour, to tell a story that is both incredibly clever and undeniably silly. The Importance of Being Earnest is a play about mistaken ident...
Audiobook ReviewThe Importance of Being Earnest is one of my all time favorite comedies, I love the matter-of-factness of the characters even when they are having conversations that seem so outrageous.This audiobook edition by L.A. Theater Works is a full dramatization of the play with some great pr...
Very funny with many lough-out-loud moments, this play is brilliant. It's short and is full of witty, memorable quotes.The absurd gentlemanly arguments between Jack and Algernon are my favorites.Highly recommended.
Plays are generally better heard than read (I find Shakespeare dull as dirt to read, though I enjoy watching his plays), and that is certainly true of this Victorian comedy of misdirection and misunderstanding. Oscar Wilde was in full satiric mode though his humor was perhaps gentler than usual, eve...
The Importance of Being Earnest deserves its spot on any classics shelf as both an example of Oscar Wilde at his wittiest and as a purely grand play. As with all great plays there are many brilliant and highly quotable lines, incredible characters and while developed for the stage it is also highly ...
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