Importance of Being Earnest - Couverture souple

Oscar Wilde’s famous play has been appropriately called “the wittiest comedy in the English language.” With a perfectly constructed plot, the very essence of farce, and with characters who assume a typically English posture, The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic. But it differs from most stage classics in that it is constantly being produced in amateur and professional theaters, as well as in motion pictures and television.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.