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The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde
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Michelle Hyland
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Oct 01, 2024 06:17AM
A little discussion group for anyone who will be reading "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde.
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Oh my gosh I love this! I've never read it... And tbh I probably won't get to it this Victober. BUT, I have seen it on the stage about 12 times. I really love this play. Me and my grandma always used to go and see it together. So I had to comment the second I saw you made this group 😊 good luck to everyone reading it. One day I will get to it to!
I love this play! I don't know about re-reading it this Victober... (although, now I'm definitely considering it...) but I might watch the movie adaptation which I didn't see before.
Hi Rachel and Jassmine,Ah thanks. Oscar Wilde what a wit. I hope to visit his house in Dublin before the end of the year. If you do decide to read the play please join me and we will have a laugh.
I plan to read it this month as well! I'll be interested in seeing what everyone thinks about it.
Hi Rhys-Marie,Excellent. I still await my copy from World of Books which I ordered almost a month ago. 🙄
So I read "The Importance of Being Earnest" and I love Wilde's play on the word earnest. I remembered the handbag scene which features Lady Bracknell from a film adaptation I had seen a few years ago.
The play is so ridiculous and fun. It was nice break from some of the more serious Victorian books.
Michelle Hyland wrote: "The play is so ridiculous and fun. It was nice break from some of the more serious Victorian books."Oh, yes, Wilde's plays are always like a breeze of fresh air... love them so much!
Hi Jassmine,It was so fun on a dull October evening.
I haven't read any of the others but I might.
I read Ideal Husband a pretty long time ago, but loved it then. And then I read Lady Windermere's Fan this year and thought it was pretty great too! I guess it's good to know though that Salome is really different from the rest, I read it a long time ago and don't remember it all that well but it is completely different genre...
I watched the 2002 movie version of The Importance of Being Ernest. So much fun! I watched instead of rereading the play.
Hi Lorri,Thank you.
I must watch that version again although someone mentioned that there is an 1950s adaptation which is funnier.
Jassmine wrote: "I read Ideal Husband a pretty long time ago, but loved it then. And then I read Lady Windermere's Fan this year and thought it was pretty great too! I guess it's good to know though that Salome is ..."Hi Jassmine,
Thank you.
