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A review by marleysclassics
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Only Oscar Wilde can write about 19th century sexism in such a charming way. You just can‘t pin down what he reproduces and what he makes fun of.
After reading (and loving) The Picture of Dorian Gray, these plays which are mostly comedies, showed my another aspect of Wilde‘s writing and it‘s great: witty, dramatic and - again - charming. Of course some plays were more my cup of tea than others, but there was none which I really disliked. (I just found that the conflicts could have been a little more creative and not just some lost-family drama everytime ;)
I think I would have understood everything better had I known more about the society Wilde criticizes here, yet I had my fun as it is as well. If you want a classic you can fly through, and underline basically every line which you recognize as one of Oscar Wilde‘s famous aphorisms, here you are.
After reading (and loving) The Picture of Dorian Gray, these plays which are mostly comedies, showed my another aspect of Wilde‘s writing and it‘s great: witty, dramatic and - again - charming. Of course some plays were more my cup of tea than others, but there was none which I really disliked. (I just found that the conflicts could have been a little more creative and not just some lost-family drama everytime ;)
I think I would have understood everything better had I known more about the society Wilde criticizes here, yet I had my fun as it is as well. If you want a classic you can fly through, and underline basically every line which you recognize as one of Oscar Wilde‘s famous aphorisms, here you are.