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  1. Algernon. You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest. It's on your cards. Here is one of them.

  2. Sep 26, 2022 · The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People (1895) by Oscar Wilde. Act I. →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item.

  3. Aug 1, 2021 · The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wildes most popular play today, enduring thanks to its easy humor, witty dialog, and clever satire. It was also one of his more successful plays, despite its first run being prematurely ended after only 86 performances.

  4. The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations.

    • Oscar Wilde
    • 1895
  5. Each of these three texts of The Importance of Being Earnest has a different kind of authority and thus possesses a different claim on our attention: none, however, can be said to be entirely the product of Wilde’s own hand.“ (Guy and Small, Studying Oscar Wilde, p. 135n)

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