Importance of Being Earnest

<p><i>After all who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for me and another for women?</i> <p/>Wilde's 'trivial play for serious people' a sparkling comedy of manners is the epitome of wit and style. This brilliantly constructed satire with its celebrated characters and much-quoted dialogue turns accepted ideas inside out and is generally regarded as Wilde's masterpiece. <p/>This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Lucie Sutherland Assistant Professor in Drama at the University of Nottingham UK which investigate the play through a contemporary lens bringing in the contributions from queer scholarship and discussions of recent productions of the play.</p>