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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Comedy & Satire, Drama

Step into the dazzling, absurd world of Oscar Wilde's most beloved play, where two charming bachelors, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, have invented alter egos named 'Ernest' to escape the suffocating grip of Victorian social expectations. Their double lives, conducted between the city and the country, become hilariously entangled when both men fall in love with women who insist on marrying only a man named Ernest. What follows is a whirlwind of mistaken identities, outrageous proposals, and the withering pronouncements of the formidable Lady Bracknell, all while Wilde skewers the hypocrisies of his age with unparalleled wit and elegant precision.

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