A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (film entry)

A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 27
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410392309
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A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (film entry), excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.

The Importance of Being Earnest

2014-08-01
The Importance of Being Earnest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1467756547
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Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.

Study Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Works by Oscar Wilde

2020-06-28
Study Guide to The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Works by Oscar Wilde
Author: Intelligent Education
Publisher: Influence Publishers
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2020-06-28
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1645424537
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Oscar Wilde, who aside from drama also published short stories, essays, and poems in various magazines. Titles in this study guide include Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. As a collection of the late- nineteenth-century, Wilde’s work rebelled against many Victorian conventions and turned to aestheticism. Moreover, other influences of his included French literature of his time and the free enjoyment of pleasure in pagan Greek culture. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Wilde’s classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons they have stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains: - Introductions to the Author and the Work - Character Summaries - Plot Guides - Section and Chapter Overviews - Test Essay and Study Q&As The Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by including essay questions and answers as well as topics for further research

Lady Windermere's Fan

1893
Lady Windermere's Fan
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1893
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:
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Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of society.The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. The best known line of the play sums up the central theme.

A Woman of No Importance

2022-06-02
A Woman of No Importance
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2022-06-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN:
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"A Woman of No Importance" is a play by Oscar Wilde, which became a phenomenon of its time. Like Wilde's other society plays, "A Woman of No Importance" satirizes the English upper-class society. The plot centers around the revelation of Mrs. Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. As the events develop, the author casts light on the perversions in Victorian upper-class society's morals, hypocritical conventions, and general views and conduct.

Oscar Wilde in Context

2013-12-12
Oscar Wilde in Context
Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107016134
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Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

2012-05-09
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2012-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307757684
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Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Oscar Wilde

1978-06-17
Oscar Wilde
Author: E.H. Mikhail
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1978-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349035777
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What The Butler Saw

2013-12-30
What The Butler Saw
Author: Joe Orton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1472536665
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"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action - their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never deserts them. Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly produced, read and studied. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final play."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)