The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Synopsis

The importance of being earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Manners and morality are also victims of wilde's sharp wit in lady windermere's fan, a woman of no importance and an ideal husband, in which snobbery and hypocrisy are laid bare. In salome and a florentine tragedy, wilde makes powerful use of historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power.