Importance of being earnest (Wilde, Oscar)
Inglés (Lengua) Lecturas y trozos escogidos.
Stratford Festival Collection (University of Guelph)
Identité (psychologie) Dans la littérature.
Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph)
Mesa Arts Center (Organization : Mesa, Ariz.)
Moving picture plays Texts and outlines.
Canadian Stage Theatre Archives (University of Guelph)
The Washington Theatre Festival, sponsored by Productions Incorporated in association with David Polland presents Estelle Winwood, John Buckmaster, Stanley Bell, Barbara Joyce in "The Importance of Being Earnest," with Patricia Coates, by Oscar Wilde, directed by David Guthrie, sets by Howard Barker, lighting by Ed Kaufman, stage designed by David Aaron for J.W. Boyne Productions.
The importance of being earnest a trivial comedy for serious people
The importance of being earnest, a trivial comedy for serious people
The importance of being ernest
Ḥashivutah shel retsinut, maḥazeh shel kalut rosh le-anashim kevede rosh
Theater programs
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
English drama (Comedy)
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Crimen de Lord Arthur Savile
Keine Hochzeit ohne Ernst (Bunbury) : Komödie in drei Akten = (The importance of being Ernest)
The importance of being earnest. Shooting script
Bunbury oder es ist wichtig, ernst zu sein e. triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
Jack disfruta de una apacible vida en el campo pero, de vez en cuando, escapa a Londres donde se transforma en Ernesto, su imaginario hermano. Ernesto es, al contrario que Jack, un joven extravagante y ds̕colo. Todo transcurre sin problemas hasta que, poco a poco, en una delirante trama, se va descubriendo que Ernesto no existe y, sin embargo lo importante que es llamarse Ernesto.
The importance of being Earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people
Bunbury. Eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
Criticism, interpretation, etc
The Importance of being Earnest: a trivial comedy for serious people
The importance of being earnest = Ce mult conteaza sa fii constant
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[The Importance of being Earnest: a trivial comedy for serious people.]
Olney Theatre, Olney, Maryland, Richard Skinner, Redge Allen, Evelyn Freyman present Jose Ferrer in "The Importance of Being Earnest," with Viola Roache and Frances Reid, staged by Gerald Savory, settings by S. Syrjala.
Program for the performance on 29 July 1977 (handwritten).
Importance of being Earnest; a trivial comedy for serious people
Bunbury oder Wie wichtig es ist, Ernst zu sein : [Programmheft]
Bunbury oder die Bedeutung des Ernstseins : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
The importance of being Earnest : authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
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The Importance of being earnest. A trivial comedy for serious people
Bunbury : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute ; in deutscher Sprache
The Importance of being Earnest. Edited with a critical commentary by W.S. Bunnell
Manuscripts document genre
Copley Theatre program. Copley Theatre, season 1916-1917, Henry Jewett, director, H.W. Pattee, manager. Henry Jewett Players in "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde. Play produced under the personal direction of Mr. Jewett.
The importance of being Earnest : authorative text, backgrounds, criticism
Importance of being earnest and other plays
Ḥashivutah shel retsinut maḥazeh shel ḳalut rosh la-ʼanashim kivde rosh
Importancia de llamares Ernesto
Folder contains the printed script mounted on blank leaves, with extensive manuscript annotations, cues, stage directions, stage lay-out and notes.
L'importanza di essere onesto
A peerless comedy of manners set in Victorian England involving young lovers and mistaken identities.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
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Fiction
The importance of being earnest
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Bunbury oder es ist wichtig, ernst zu sein : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
The Importance of being earnest = Il importe d'être constant
Lord Arthur Savile's crime
Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce, playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men. Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who bend the truth in order to add excitement to their lives. Jack invents an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from his dull country home and gallavant in town. Meanwhile, Algernon follows Jack's scam, but his imaginary friend, Bumbury, provides a convenient method of adventuring in the country. However, their deceptions eventually cross paths, resulting in a series of crises that threaten to spoil their romantic pursuits. Hailed as the first modern comedy in England, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is Wilde's most famous work. This collection also features two other plays that Wilde penned earlier in his career, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN and AN IDEAL HUSBAND, that also display his ability to convey warmth and wit through his hilarious characters and their outlandish situations.
Lady Windermere's fan - A Woman of no importance - An ideal husband - Salome_______________
A satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, this witty play is considered Wilde's greatest achievement. Jack Worthing is a fashionable young man who lives in the country with his ward Cecily Cardew. He has invented a rakish brother named Ernest whose supposed exploits give Jack an excuse to travel to London periodically, and the laughs begin.
Comedy
Wilde's classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are "Earnest," a moniker that both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on their possesser.
חשיבותה של רצינית : מחזה של קלות־ראש לאנשים כבדי־ראש
The Importance of being earnest and other plays
Three classic plays, including Wilde's most famous play which attacks Victorian manners and morals.
Ernst sein! : e. triviale Komödie für seriöse Leute
Humorous plays
La importancia de llamarse Ernesto
Yale University, the School of Drama presents The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde, directed by Frank McMullan; designed by: John Ezell, settings; Barbara Douglas, costumes; Paul Sullivan, lighting; music by David Kraehenbuehl.
Wilde's classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are "Earnest, " a moniker that both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on their possesser.
Presented by La Mama Theatre; written by Oscar Wilde; directed by Miki Caspers.
Importance of Being Earnest
The importance of being earnest : an authoritative text edition
Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.
Bunbury oder es ist wichtig, ernst zu sein : e. triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
Contains three plays by nineteenth-century Irish author Oscar Wilde, featuring the title work, a comedy of mixed identity about a man who, as a child, was absentmindedly placed in a handbag and left at the railroad station; and including "Lady Windermere's Fan," and "Salome."
The importance of being earnest : [theatre program], [1987]
The importance of being earnest : an authorotative text edition
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, Earnest, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
Bunbury, oder, Die Bedeutung des Ernstseins : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthaste Leute
The importance of being Earnest; a trivial comedy for serious people
The importance of being earnest. A trivial comedy for serious people [in three acts]
Presented by the Independent Theatre Company; directed by Rob Croser; written by Oscar Wilde.
Importance of being earnest (Motion picture : 1952)
Study guides
Il est important d'être aimé : [The Importance of being earnest : Paris, Théâtre de la Comédie des Champs Elysées, 29 octobre 1954]
The Importance of being Earnest = La importancia de llanarse Ernesto ; Lord Arthur Savile's crime = El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile
Wilde's classic comedy of manners, first performed in 1895, is regarded by many critics and scholars as being the wittiest play in the English language. Set in England during the Victorian era, the play focuses on Jack and Algernon, two young men in love with girls both determined to marry someone named Earnest. This play explores the nature of marriage and the constraints of morality using light-hearted satire and dazzling humor.
Bunbury : [... oder wie wichtig es ist, ernst zu sein ; eine oberflächliche Komödie für ernsthafte Menschen von Oscar Wilde ; Deutsch von Peter Zadek und Gottfried Greiffenhagen ; Premiere am 13. Januar 1993]
Bunbury, u, Igl è impurtant dad esser serious : ena cumegia triviala per gliout seriousa
Bunbury oder ernst sein ist wichtig : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
Bunbury : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
Bunbury
The importance of being earnest : and other plays
A farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear chiefly upon the situations and the lines. It so happens that this farce contains more clever lines, puns, epigrams, and deft repartees than any other of modern times, but these are after all accessory. A farce may be written without these additions--it might well be pure pantomime. Wilde has thrown them in for full measure.
The importance of being earnest :a trivial comedy of serious people
Importance of being earnest a trivial comedy for serious people
The Importance of being carnest, a trivial comedy for serious people by the author of Lady Windermere's fan
Bunbury oder es ist wichtig, ernst zu sein eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
The text of Wilde's last play.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular. It makes fun of social graces in the late Victorian era. Two seemingly unrelated parties are thrown into ridiculous entanglement when their fake identities, maintained in order to escape social responsibilities, grow ever more complicated to uphold.
Bunbury : e. triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
The importance of being ernest [sic] : [theatre program], [1977]
Ernst sein! : (Bunbury); eine triviale Komödie für seriöse Leute
The Importance of Being Ernest
A clever farce poking fun at the complex set of social conventions that defined upper-class England at the time, the play tells the story of Jack and Algernon and the antics that ensue as they seek romance while also trying to avoid the cumbersome demands of their class. To this end, they both adopt the alias Ernest, causing no end of confusion. Despite its resounding success, scandal in Wilde's personal life caused the run to be ended early. It has, however, gone on to be the author's best known play. Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
The importance of being Earnest = La importancia de llamarse Ernesto ; Lord Arthur Savile's crime = El crimen de Lord Arthur Savile
The importance of being Earnest from KnowledgeNotes student guides
Ḥashivutah shel ha-rĕtsinut : maḥazeh shel ḳalut rosh la-anashim kivdé rosh
Bunbury oder Wie wichtig es ist, Ernst zu sein [Programmheft]
Bunbury oder wie wichtig es ist, ernst zu sein
The importance of being earnest & other plays Plays. Selections
The Importance of being earnest = (l'Importance d'être constant)
A dramatization of Oscar Wilde's best-known comedy which uses humor to celebrate the triumph of life over adversity in Victorian society.
Bunbury, oder, es ist wichtig, ernst zu sein : eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
The importance of being Ernest
The importance of being Earnest a trivial comedy for serious people, in four acts as originally written
The importance of being Earnest : with connections
Ford's Theater, John Little, manager, The Theatre Guild and John C. Wilson in association with H.M. Tennent Ltd. of London have the honor to present John Gielgud and his distinguished company in Mr. Gielgud's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, directed by John Gielgud, decor by Motley.
The importance of being earnest : a trivial novel for serious people
Prime classics library
L'importanza di far sul serio : commedia
Lady Windermere's fan
Electronic books
Ernst sein! (The importance of being earnest). Eine triviale Komödie für seriöse Leute
La importancia de llamarse Ernesto : siendo formal y moderadamente ambiguo
The importance of being earnest = L'importance d'être constant : texte intégral
The importance of being earnest a trivial comedy of serious people
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother, Earnest, who lives in London, to escape his dull country routine but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wilde's greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular plays'Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salome'challenged contemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.
La importancia de llamarse Ernesto, siendo formal y moderadamento ambiguo
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Bunbury oder ernst sein ist wichtig eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
Une satire de la grande bourgeoisie anglaise. Peut être vendu avec une cassette audio.
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Ḥashivutah shel retsinut : maḥazeh shel kalut roʼsh la-ʼanashim kivde roʼsh
Bunbury Eine triviale Komödie f. ernsthafte Leute
The importance of being earnest. A trivial comedy of serious people
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The importance of being Earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people / by the author of Lady Windermere's Fan
Ernst sein! : eine triviale Komödie für seriöse Leute
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Earnest.
The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people in four acts as originally written
Importance of being Earnest : and other plays
Collections
This book is an 1898 edition of "The Importance of Being Earnest."
The importance of being earnest, and other plays
Comedies
Importance of being earnest
Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for the weekend, and is startled to discover Jack is also there -- except that she knows him as bad-boy Earnest. So just who really is who?
The importance of being earnest : a trival comedy for serious people
The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department Rev. Gilbert V. Hartke, O.P. head presents "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, directed by Joseph Lewis, settings and lighting by James D. Waring, costumes by Mr. Lewis, stage manager Catherine Gaffigan.
Ernst sein! (The Importance of being Earnest.) : Eine triviale Komödie für seriöse Leute
The importance of being earnest : Atrivial comedy for serious people
Salome
Bunbury oder Die Wichtigkeit, ernst zu sein : Komödie in drei Akten
Contains the complete text of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" and "Lady Windermere's Fan."
L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
L'importance d'être constant = The importance of being earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest; A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. With an Introd. by Henry Popkins
Bunbury eine triviale Komödie für ernsthafte Leute
English drama
Importe d'être constant
Bunbury oder die Wichtigkeit, ernst zu sein : Komödie in 3 Akten
Ernst sein! : (the importance of being earnest) : eine triviale Komödie für seriöse Leute ; [d. Bühnen u. Vereinen gegenüber Ms.]
Olney Theatre presents "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, with Steven Sutherland, Max Wright, Katherine McGrath, Cecilia Hart, Anita Dangler, Henry Sutton, and featuring Dorothy Blackburn as Lady Bracknell, directed by James D. Waring, setting and lighting by Mr. Waring, costumes by Kaye A. Byars, musical score by Emerson Meyers.
An ENSA production "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comedy in three acts by Oscar Wilde, produced by Eric Berry, stage director Marcel Meyer, stage manager Audrey Long, scenery designed by L.W. Anson and executed in the ENSA workshops, costumes designed by Captain Michael Ellis of Army Welfare and executed by Florence Brown of the ENSA wardrobe, ENSA Garrison Theatre Orchestra under the dirction of George Scheel.
Set in England during the 1800's,this comedy of manners revolves around a pun on the name Ernest.
Satire
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
L' importance d'être constant d' Oscar Wilde : mise en scène de Jérôme Savary
The importance of being earnest : (Danish ed., condensed and adapted)
The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on February 14, 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London. 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 satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his impending downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, fat.
Bunbury oder Es ist wichtig, ernst zu sein
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of Wilde's most famous plays and still commands the affection of the public through its cinematic adaptations; most recently with Reece Witherspoon and Colin Firth. In Earnest, Wilde uses a mixture of social drama; popular at the time and other popular but less politically engaged forms such as melodrama and farce. The use of gentle parody is probably what protected Wilde from the more biting attacks aimed at his contemporaries such as Henrik Ibsen and Thomas Hardy who commented to similar effect on the values and attitudes of Victorian society. Within the drama Wilde manages to satirise the values that many still believed were the very reason for the great triumphs of Victorian Britain on the world stage. These were the ideas of respectability, self sacrifice, moral rectitude and high mindedness that were closely associated with the Victorian aristocracy. Little by little however Wilde reveals all these to be simply elements of an elaborate mask worn by the ruling elites, behind which each is engaged in precisely the opposite modes of behaviour. In short the principle characters will go to any lengths to avoid their responsibilities and place self interest at the top of their own agendas. Through the literary techniques of dramatic irony parody and reversals Wilde reveals the moral hypocrisy at the heart of the Victorian establishment. -- Description from http://www.online-literature.com (June 5, 2012.).
Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945
The importance of being Earnest; a trivial comedy of serious people
Une satire de la grande bourgeoisie anglaise.
Ha-shivutah shel retsinut : mahazeh shel kalut rosh la-'anashim kivde rosh
The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy [in three acts] for serious people
The importance of being Earnest: a trivial play for serious people with an introduction by Adeline Hartcup
Ḥashivutah shel retsinut : maḥazeh shel ḳalut rosh la-ʼanashim kivde-rosh
The importance of being Earnest : [a trivial comedy for serious people]
This lighthearted play tells the farcical tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Montcrieff'two men who falsely claim to be named Ernest when they fall in love with two women whose affections are illogically but irrevocably tied to the name. The Importance of Being Earnest was popular upon its debut in 1895, but the reputation of Oscar Wilde's works declined when he was imprisoned for accusations of homosexual behaviour. It was not until the twentieth century that Wilde's work was once again recognized both for its literary worth and comedic genius, and subsequently The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted many times for film and theatre, most recently in the 2002 film starring Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Dame Judy Dench. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
La importancia de llamarse Ernesto. El Crimen de Lord Arturo Savile / B. Montuenga
Bunbury : oder Wie wichtig es ist, ernst zu sein ; [Programmheft]
The importance of being Earnest : [notes]
Wilde's classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, and his other popular plays--Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and Salome--challenged contemporary notions of sex and sensibility, class and cultural identity. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: a concise introduction that gives readers important background information; a chronology of the author's life and work; a timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context; an outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations; detailed explanatory notes; critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work; discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction; a list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience.--From publisher description.
The Importance of being Earnest
Film novelizations
The importance of being earnest : a trivial comedy for serious people : [Introduction, notes and exercices] : [London, St. James Theatre, February 14, 1895]
Dictionaries
"Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Earnest, while Algernon has also posed as Earnest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend--the "rivals" to fight for Earnest's undivided attention and the "Earnests" to claim their beloveds--pandemonium breaks loose"--Page 4 of cover.
Importance of being Earnest
The importance of being earnest a trivial play for serious people
The importance of being earnest = Ce mult contează să fii constant
The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main charachter, John Worthing's, ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in this work. This is an important play for those are fans of comedy plays and of course the works of Oscar Wilde.
L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernest
The Importance of Being Earnest, With an Introd. by Sir John Gielgud and Commentary and Notes by E.R. Wood
The importance of being earnest : [complete play in three acts]
Specimens
Humorous fiction
The importance of being Earnest
"First published 1899 in the United Kingdom. Drawing room comedy exposing quirks and foibles of Victorian society with plot revolving around amorous pursuits of two men who face social obstacles when they woo young ladies of quality. This play 'is noted for its witty lines, its clever situations, and its satire on the British nobility and clergy.'" Reader's Ency 4th ed.
The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department Rev. Gilbert V. Hartke, O.P. head presents Mr. Oscar Wilde's farce comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest," the play directed by Mr. Alan Schneider and Dr. Josephine McGarry Callan, the art and technical direction by Mr. Ralph Brown, settings designed by Ruth Shmigelsky, stage manager Joan O'Byrne.
The Importance of being earnest
Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts (Webster Groves, Mo.)
Press and Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler,
England Social life and customs 19th century Drama.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The importance of being Earnest.
Grand Theatre Collection (University of Guelph)