The Importance of Being Earnest
Book Author Oscar Wilde
DescriptionThe Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play.