THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Apuntes de Teatro

¡Descarga THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST y más Apuntes en PDF de Teatro solo en Docsity! THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST The importance of being Earnest: a trivial comedy for serious people is a play in three acts written by Oscar Wilde in 1849. This is a comedy of manners play with tones of satire. 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.1 Returning to the play, Jack, our protagonist, is a responsible man in the community of Hertfordshire and he adopted Cecily Cardew. He pretended to have an irresponsible brother, Ernest, with a scandalous life in London and he was always getting into troubles. When Jack goes to London, he changes into Ernest and nobody knows it: he has a kind of double life. Jack’s best friend, Algernon, knows him as Ernest. Jack falls in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, Algernon’s cousin and he wants to marry her, but Algernon begins to suspect that “Ernest” is not telling the truth. Jack confesses everything and he tries to propose Gwendolen, but she wouldn’t marry a man whose name isn’t Ernest: she’s in love with the name and what involves that name. Algernon goes to Hertfordshire pretending to be Jack’s brother Ernest and he falls in love with Cecily, who is also in love with the name “Ernest”, the same as Gwendolen in London. Algernon wants to change his name in order to marry her, so he goes to find the rector. Gwendolen arrives to Hertfordshire and meet Cecily. The two women begin to talk and they discover everything: now they know that their fiancés are not Ernest. When Jack and Algernon arrives, they tell the truth to them. As the women are in love with the name “Ernest”, they get angry and left together. When Jack and Algernon tell Gwendolen and Cecily that they are going to change their names into Ernest, the women are in love again; their only concerned with the name. 1 Fragment from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde