[The Importance of being Ernest]
Year:
1895
Type:
Public:
Year of publication:
2022
Pages:
112
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
A play and farce subtitled "a trivial comedy for serious people". John Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, Jack and Algy, are courting. Jack wants to marry Algy’s cousin Gwendolen Fairfax and Algy is the suitor of Jack’s ward Cecily Cardew. Both live double lives. Jack is known as Ernest in town but in the country he has a wicked brother called Ernest. Whenever Algy needs to get away from his aunt Lady Bracknell, he pretends to visit the sickly Bunbury in the country. Cecily is adamant that she will only marry a person called Ernest.
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 and died in 1900 having been educated in Trinity College, Dublin and then Oxford. He was a brilliant classical scholar. He commanded international fame for this farce.
Author: Cliff Cobb, United Kingdom
Update on: Nov 2023