The Importance of Being Earnest

– AUTHOR: – Oscar WILDE (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde), born in Dublin (Ireland) in 1854 and died in Paris (France) in 1900, is an Irish writer.Born into a Protestant family, a physician father, an anthropologist and historian, and a mother-poet, he studied brilliantly in classical literature, art and philosophy.In 1878, he graduated and decided to settle in London.Already, during his studies, he wrote sonnets and won the university’s competition. Similarly, he published his first collection of poems and composed his first tragedy.In 1882 he was in the United States to give a series of lectures on art. Then, he returns to France where he befriends the writers and painters Hugo, Daudet, Pissarro, Degas, Zola and Verlaine.In 1883 he was in Dublin for his marriage to Constance Lloyd. They will have two children.In 1890 and 1891, publication of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”That same year, he returns to Paris where he stays several months, meets André Gide and finishes the writing of “Salome.”In 1895, there is a triumph in London of his centerpiece “The Importance of Being Constant.”In 1898, following his judicial problems with the British justice, he chose to go into exile in Paris and Naples. During this period until his death in 1900, he used the pseudonym Sebastien Melmoth. – DRAMA; – THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a play by Oscar Wilde.It’s a comedy and a zany satire.Algernon Moncrieff, a young man from London, nephew of Lady Bracknell, receives his best friend Jack Worthing.The latter came to ask the hand of the young woman Gwendolen Fairfax, cousin of Algernon.Beforehand, Algernon requires jack to provide explanations about his relationship with the young woman Cecily Cardew.In addition, Lady Bracknell, mother of Gwendolen, reproaches Jack his dubious origins. He was found a baby in a handbag at the Victoria Station.Subsequently, events will demonstrate that Jack is actually the eldest son of his deceased sister. He is the older brother of Algernon.In view of the new situation, Jack discovers that his real name is actually Ernest.As a result, all obstacles are lifted to his engagement with Gwendolen. Something that opens the way for Algernon to seduce Cecily.In the end, Jack says, “I just realized for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest.”