The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
Author's portrait: Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde that follows two young men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, as they attempt to win the hearts of two young women, Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Jack and Algernon both use the same pseudonym, Ernest, in order to gain the affections of the women. Jack has created a fictitious brother, Ernest, in order to explain his frequent absences from his home in the country. Algernon, on the other hand, has invented an invalid friend, Bunbury, in order to...

~1895 CE
Available in: English
Fairly Easy
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Table of contents   3
# Chapter
1 Act 1: Algernon Moncrieff's Flat in Half-moon Street, W
2 Act 2: The Garden at the Manor House, Woolton
3 Act 3: Drawing-room at the Manor House, Woolton

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