num_pages: 209
description: "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
language: English
title: The Importance of Being Earnest
titlecomplete: The Importance of Being Earnest
characters: Rev. Canon Chasuble, Cecily Cardew, Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen Fairfax, John Worthing, Algernon Montcrieff, Lane, Miss Prism, Merriman
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Comedy, Plays, Humor, School, Romance, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 358516
places: England, London, England, Woolton, Hertfordshire, England
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company