So hilarious!There's this:“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”And This:“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.” AND THIS:...

Oscar Wilde is such joyous fun! He makes us look at ourselves in the most ironic and funny ways. Certainly he was a master of satire and in this play, he has presented the characters in what I have come to think of as the stiff British way. I loved that is poked a great deal of fun at the staid Victorian period. Mr Wilde himself was certainly everything else but staid and perhaps in thinking of him, we see a man born before his time.The play on the words "Earnest" is fun and yet its does point t...

what can i SAY. this is Oscar Wilde. of course this was GREATdid not read A Woman of No Importance but i definitely shall. the rest were a fucking delight in their own unique way, but my favourite has gotta be The Importance of Being Earnest. i mean, the pun alone deserves all the love and praise.in conclusion, sir Wilde sure was a fucking bastard, but he definitely knew what he was doing. cheers.

3.5 starsI love Oscar Wilde so much and I’m so glad I finally ended up reading his most famous plays, they were so ironic and funny, I also adored the social satire he did. I’d love to see them on stage, it must be amazing.The Importance of Being Earnest, 4/5 starsLady Windermere’s Fan, 4/5 starsSalomé, 3/5 starsA Woman of No Importance, 3.5/5 starsAn Ideal Husband, 3.5/5 stars

Tremendous This book is a collection of several plays by Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest is the lead play because it is popular in literature. However, there are other plays which are fun and worth exploring.Oscar Wilde wrote at the end of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century and is incredibly adept in the word interplay necessary for each play.These plays are very light and easy and sometimes pretty funny or sarcastic. I enjoy doing this paragraphI highly recom...

I really enjoyed the title play. Wilde likes to make fun of the upper class, showing them as rather silly. I especially liked the two butlers. Algernon's man Lane had the perfect response for everything, coming to his master's rescue more than once. I think he might have been the smartest character in the play.I didn't like the other plays as much. I had a hard time distinguishing Lady A, Duchess B, Mrs. C and Colonel D in some of them. It probably works better to see the plays performed rather

I used to be an inveterate playgoer (one year, 1989 I think, I saw 52 plays).The action and dialog on stage can be pretty quick. And if you're seeing a play that was written in another time for a different culture, that might be too quick to catch.For example, the first line of Lady Windermere's Fan is from a butler stepping up to the lady of the house and asking "Is your ladyship at home this afternoon?" Our modern minds would probably surmise from such a question that the butler is asking whet...

I haven’t read a play in a while – I think the last play I read was ‘Homecoming’ by Harold Pinter a few years back. So, I decided to read a few plays this year. The first one I got hold of was ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ by Oscar Wilde. I have always admired Oscar Wilde’s wit and humour and so I was really looking forward to reading his most famous play. I finished reading it a couple of days back. Here is what I think.What I think‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is about two friends John...

In The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde revisits and revitalizes the long theatrical tradition of the quiproquo, I would say "Italian style". It is a light and lively comedy, as were its predecessors in the Commedia dell Arte, but where the harlequins are English dandies and where the acid lines are more reminiscent of Chekhov than Goldoni.You have understood that throughout this comedy in four acts, Wilde will play on the ambiguity of this word. Because, the two main protagonists, Jack a...

Lady Windermere’s Fan: "Do you want answers?" "I think I'm entitled to it." "You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can’t handle the truth!" Switch and repeat.Salome: "They'll love it in Pomona." Mishima directed it in Japan!A Woman of No Importance: A bit preachy and hysterical.An Ideal Husband: "Do you want answers?" "I think I'm entitled to it." "You want answers?" "I want the truth!" "You can’t handle the truth! Oh, wait. It seems that you can." Switch and repeat.A Florentine Tragedy: I...

Oscar Wilde knows how to write a really good play. The introduction to my Signet Classic edition picks up on this by analysing the play’s subtitle “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” and its inverse “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” (Barnet xxx). Just as Algernon is “serious about Bunburying,” Wilde is serious at “constructing a play” (Barnet xxvii) [See my footnote 1]. He is a serious playwright in the sense that he is a masterful one, and The Importance of Being Earnest has all the elem...

Unexpectedly hilarious! It was so surprising how much of the humor translated to current times. Delightfully fun. I weirdly loved this. But I honestly went into it randomly with very low expectations.I love witty sarcasm, and Oscar Wilde was chock full of it!5 Stars

I don't read plays. Maybe I am the only human being who hasn't read Shakespeare. I tried. Honesty. When I was a teenager, decided to read Romeo and Juliet. Well, teenager+R&J, quite a good start. I got irritated by Romeo just in the middle of the book and left it. Then I started Hamlet. I don't even remember why I left it.I hated plays and was getting confused in the list of maybe 20 people presented at the front page of the play. Hated this theatrical long monologues and conversations of 10 peo...

[Audiobook]The Importance of Being Earnest: 4/5Reread, best play by Wilde to date, funny and entertaining.A Woman of No Importance: 3.5/5Reread, illegitimacy and the way parents suffer for it (the woman pays more).An Ideal Husband: 3.5/5Reread, explores the question of morality (is anyone truly 100% pure?), love goes hand in hand with forgiveness.Lady Windermere’s Fan: 3/5Meh, blackmail, a mother discovering she may care for her child, affairs “the grass is greener” not my favourite. I will say

I am glad that sir Oscar lived up to his reputation

"Prism, where is that baby?" demands the damndest dowager in theatre history in OWs farcical masterpiece. Feeling blue ? Reread this comedic milestone for the most preposterous merriment outside of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," with a bow to WS Gilbert and Sheridan. Wilde found his playwrighting voice just before The Fall. He turned unreal drawing-room nonsense into Art. Muffins, cucumber sandwiches, a handbag left at Victoria Station and a grande dame who burbles about train schedules : "We ha...

The Importance of Being EarnestThe humour, the social satire, the banters, simply brilliant! [06.10.2019, 5 stars]A Florentine TragedyShort play with a shocking twist at the end. [11.10.2019, 3 stars]SaloméDidn‘t like it that much. Was exhausting to read because of its old traditional language and style. The story itself okay with another twist at the end. (For people who don‘t know the bible that good as myself). [The setting however fitted as I’m on holiday in Cyprus. 12.10.2019, 2 stars]Lady

The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermere's Fan are fun and light reads, they made me smile and laugh out loud, and they were entertaining. I wish there was a little depth to Earnest, especially regarding the ending. It seemed trivial, and I know that it's a satire, but I couldn't get past the easily-fixed Shakespearean resolution. Salome, on the other hand, was a different read from Wilde. I've read Dorian Gray, short stories, plays, and essays, and Salome falls more in line with the

4.5. Was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed all three of these stories!

No one I have ever read is as funny as Wilde. In many places he came forth as an extremely bold and caustic version of Jane Austen in terms of how he uses his wit to lampoon the British elite.An Ideal Husband has some very toxic patriarchal ideas about women, but they are part and parcel of the times of which he was writing.