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A star-studded production of Oscar Wilde's comedy. With Dame Judi Dench, Martin Clunes, Samantha Bond and Michael Sheen.
A movie was made based on this book: In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, Edward Fox, Patrick Godfrey....
This movie is available at YouTube. ...more
A movie was made based on this book: In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey, Edward Fox, Patrick Godfrey....
This movie is available at YouTube. ...more
Each sentence is sharp and witty and perfectly placed. Each word is important to the play. Wilde is so witty and intelligent and has his finger on the pulse of the society in which he lived. I laughed. I rewound my audio book just to hear a line again. Excellent, fun listen!
Spring 2020 (March);
~ Live reading w/5 classes
I loved doing this satirical play with my class, and listening to them giggle as the train wreck of a cast train wrecked across the whole of this play. The whole of this play is a contrivance of satire against the upper class and, while I don't find that it has much depth with context research, I do like that one gets a few smiles out of the lunacy of the interactions even without knowing all of that. ...more
~ Live reading w/5 classes
I loved doing this satirical play with my class, and listening to them giggle as the train wreck of a cast train wrecked across the whole of this play. The whole of this play is a contrivance of satire against the upper class and, while I don't find that it has much depth with context research, I do like that one gets a few smiles out of the lunacy of the interactions even without knowing all of that. ...more
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