Great version of the Classic Play The Importance of Being Earnest is a fantastic play. It is an easy read, and is not only well thought out, but hilarious.I liked this book of the play especially, because it includes helpful notes in the beginning, but more because it has a glossary of difficult terms in the back. Every time I came to a word that I did not know, it was sure to be defined in the back.If you love theatre, this is a great play to read. I would highly suggest this book.
The wittiest play ever written in the English language “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is one of the first plays written in English since the works of Shakespeare that celebrates the language itself. Oscar Wilde’s comedy has one advantage over the classic comedies of the Bard in that “The Importance of Being Earnest” is as funny today as it was when it was first performed at the St. Jame’s Theater in London on February 14, 1895. After all, enjoying Shakespeare requires checking the bottom…
Wilde’s wittiest One thing happens when you read Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”; you are amazed to remember that this play was authored over 100 years ago. For most plays of that era, the average reader tends to lose references and it tends to be stodgy and irrelevant. Not so Earnest, due to the brilliance and imagination of it’s playwright.The Importance of Being Earnest is a tour de force of comedy, misidentifications, and farce. Algernon and Jack are friends, and each has…
Great version of the Classic Play The Importance of Being Earnest is a fantastic play. It is an easy read, and is not only well thought out, but hilarious.I liked this book of the play especially, because it includes helpful notes in the beginning, but more because it has a glossary of difficult terms in the back. Every time I came to a word that I did not know, it was sure to be defined in the back.If you love theatre, this is a great play to read. I would highly suggest this book.
The wittiest play ever written in the English language “The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” is one of the first plays written in English since the works of Shakespeare that celebrates the language itself. Oscar Wilde’s comedy has one advantage over the classic comedies of the Bard in that “The Importance of Being Earnest” is as funny today as it was when it was first performed at the St. Jame’s Theater in London on February 14, 1895. After all, enjoying Shakespeare requires checking the bottom…
Wilde’s wittiest One thing happens when you read Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”; you are amazed to remember that this play was authored over 100 years ago. For most plays of that era, the average reader tends to lose references and it tends to be stodgy and irrelevant. Not so Earnest, due to the brilliance and imagination of it’s playwright.The Importance of Being Earnest is a tour de force of comedy, misidentifications, and farce. Algernon and Jack are friends, and each has…