The Importance of Being Earnest July 9, 2010

The Importance of Being Earnest is a delightful comedy of manners and a brazen social satire on the late Victorian ruling classes’ obsession with name and status.

At a time in England when prudery and strict moral conduct were enforced and it was deemed improper for a lady’s ankle to be so much as even glimpsed, and when all people knew their place and position.

The Importance of Being Earnest shows us just how fragile that surface is when the beating hearts of our hot-blooded late Victorian characters dare to, as Gwendolen puts it, “speak with perfect candour.” Skeletons fall out of closets, young people behave recklessly, the matriarch is challenged and even the clergy has a hard time maintaining propriety.

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