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	Queer As Folk Addiction \| Gale Harold \| The Importance of Being Earnest
		Earnestness -- that is, a high-minded and serious devotion to duty and virtue -- was a quality advocated by such central Victorian figures as Arnold and Tennyson, but it was mocked as a trait of the rigidly moralistic middle class by other Victorians who found middle-class values self-serving and middle-class tastes dull.
		It is a play built upon a pun over the name "Earnest." John Worthing is "Jack" in the country and "Earnest" in the city.
		In this satire, being earnest is made as superficial a trait as possible; it means simply having the name Earnest.
	www.angelfire.com /home/qaf/earnest.html (762 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Importance of Being Earnest: Books: Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, one of the most celebrated of all stage comedies, a faster pace helps Greg Wise and Richard Pearce sound young and carefree as they concoct witty deceptions to pursue their sweethearts.
		Oscar Wilde's comedy has one advantage over the classic comedies of the Bard in that "The Importance of Being Earnest" is as funny today as it was when it was first performed at the St. Jame's Theater in London on February 14, 1895.
		In the end, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is the wittiest play every written, in English or any other language, and I doubt that anything written in the future will come close.
	www.amazon.ca /Importance-Being-Earnest-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0380012774 (1623 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest - a play by Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Importance of Being Earnest is a farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing.
		This is in a manner comparable with the art of the magician who, while calling attention to a dexterous feat of legerdemain with his right hand, prepares the next trick with his left.
		So, in the first act, we are scarcely aware of the importance of Algernon's disquisition on "Bunburying," or of Algernon's writing the address which Jack gives to Gwendolyn "on his shirt-cuff," so nonchalantly are these points introduced.
	www.theatredatabase.com /19th_century/oscar_wilde_004.html (778 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Importance of Being Earnest Was a one hit wonder play by Oscar Wilde (also known as Chuck Norris).
		One theme present in "The Importnace of Being Earnest" is the theme of seduction.
		A secondary theme in "The Importance of Being Earnest" is the theme of relationships after the age of 65.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest (408 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Importance of Being Earnest
		The Popkorn Junkie :: The Importance of Being Earnest
		The Importance of Being Earnest starring Rupert Everett, Co lin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, and Judi Dench.
		"The Importance Of Being Earnest" is a most entertaining farce of mistaken identities which takes place in 1980's England and which is based on the famous play by Oscar Wilde of the same title.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/importanceofbeingearnest.html (565 words)

	Modamag.com \| The Importance Of Being Earnest Movie Review
		The Importance Of Being Earnest, which is based on the famous play by the same title, takes place in 1890's England.
		Algie arrives in Jack's country manor and pretends to be Jack's brother Earnest in order to meet Cecily and falls for her.
		The Importance Of Being Earnest is mostly a delightful film to watch on the big screen.
	www.modamag.com /earnest.htm (582 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest
		The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. James's Theatre was a Society Comedy about life in St. James's for audiences who lived or shopped or dined in St. James's.
		In 1895, while The Importance of Being Earnest was in rehearsal, Wilde was in the middle of his troubled but long-term relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, and was being pursued by Douglas's father, the pugnacious and homophobic Marquis of Queensbury (author of "Queensbury rules" of boxing).
		During the height of the controversy, Alexander withdrew The Importance of Being Earnest from performance.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~cmazer/imp.html (1907 words)

	Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
		He submerged himself in a disorienting sea of liquor and young men and set out with his writing to "disturb the monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit and reduction of man to the level of machine." Ironically, it was during this devil-may-care period (1888-1895) that most of Wilde's important works were written.
		The last of Wilde's plays to be written, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), is considered by many to be the finest modern farce in the English language.
		Two weeks later, he confronted Wilde at his club, leaving his infamously mispelled note accusing Wilde of "posing as a Somdomite." Wilde decided to charge Queensbury with libel, but revelations during the trial about the nature of Wilde's relationship with Queensbury's son caused the playwright to be prosecuted for offences to minors.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc38.html (734 words)

	Importance of Being Earnest, The (2002): Reviews
		Luckily, Wilde's delicious sense of absurdity and peerlessly witty dialogue are pretty indestructible, and "Earnest" itself remains a peerless comedy of manners.
		Wilde's masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, may be the best play of the 19th century.
		This may be a less than ideal “Earnest,” but it still has delights, not least of all Anna Massey’s Miss Prism, Cecily’s dotty tutor, and Tom Wilkinson’s Dr. Chasuble, her clergyman admirer.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/importanceofbeingearnest (1135 words)

	Charity's Place.com > The Importance of Being Earnest
		With The Importance of Being Earnest, it's a joke on the gravity of human failings; it mocks women's ideals and men's failings equally and manages to get away with it.
		Without being a staunch lover of the play itself, I loved these updates, as well as the addition of a fun-filled jazz soundtrack.
		Although Earnest is considered the best of Wilde's plays, the director has somewhat lessened the impact by cutting, pasting, adding, rearranging, and improvising the original text.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/importanceofbeingearnest.htm (902 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest Summary & Essays - Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Importance of Being Earnest has been favorably compared with William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night and Restoration plays like Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal and Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.
		While it is generally acknowledged that Wilde's play owes a debt to these works, critics have contended that the playwright captures something unique about his era, reworking the late Victorian melodramas and stage romances to present a farcical, highly satiric work—though audiences generally appraise the play as simply great fun.
		Tragically, as The Importance of Being Earnest, his fourth and most successful play, received acclaim in London, Wilde himself became embroiled in the legal actions against his homosexuality that would end his career and lead to imprisonment, bankruptcy, divorce, and exile.
	www.enotes.com /importance-being (376 words)

	LibriVox » The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
		The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
		The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on the possessor.
		It was first performed for the public on February 14, 1895 at the St. James’ Theatre in London, and is regarded by many critics and scholars as being the wittiest play in the English language.
	librivox.org /the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde (200 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "The Importance of Being Earnest"
		So it's hard to understand how "The Importance of Being Earnest," which also stars Everett and was adapted and directed by Oliver Parker, the same man who made "An Ideal Husband," goes so wrong.
		At times the movie is gentle to the point of inertia; worse, though, is the way Parker punctuates what should be the story's funniest, most over-the-top bits with jazzy horn riffs or drippy, whimsical music, instead of letting them ride the wave of their own understatement.
		If there's one play that doesn't need sparking up, with music or anything else, it's "The Importance of Being Earnest." What's odd about the movie is that all the actors seem to know that intuitively, and still, the overall effect falls flat.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/05/31/importance_earnest (635 words)

	Conflicts in The Importance of Being Earnest -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
		Usually, authors of that Period used the lower classes as their roving grounds for social commentary, but unlike authors such as Dickens, Wilde used the upper classes, with which he was personally familiar.
		It is being earnest that the play mainly focuses on, as may be surmised from the title.
		Jack, in saying that his name is Earnest, is found to be telling the truth at the revelatory end of the story, and Lagernon’s lie of being Jack’s brother is also found to be true when they find Jack’s real parents.
	www.literatureclassics.com /essays/225 (610 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is the genius of the play: the play-goer might view all of the values of bourgeois society upheld while at the same time they are being made fun of.
		This attempt turn it into a light entertainment for today's youthful audiences fails because this play is not a romantic comedy.
		Recalling Lady Bracknell as a dance hall girl in her youth who became pregnant before being wed was ridiculous and not only added nothing, but misinterpreted her character.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0278500 (919 words)

	Importance of Being Earnest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		While The Importance of Being Earnest offers opportunities for occasional smiles and chuckles, it doesn't give us a reason to be in the theater beyond Wilde's wit and the actors' performances.
		The Importance of Being Earnest resonates and inspires rapid-
		Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, may be the best play of the 19th century.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/importance_of_being_earnest (1125 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde, a comedy of manners in either three or four acts (depending on edition) inspired by W.
		The title being translatable only to a few languages—it relies on "Ernest" and "earnest" being homophones in English—it is then usually staged under the title Bunbury, referring to deceit in general.
		In Germany the play and the 2002 movie are called Ernst sein ist alles ("Being Earnest is all"), keeping precisely the original pun (Ernst being both a first name and a German word for being serious).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest (1676 words)

	The Importance of being Earnest - articles 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		For this is An Ideal Husband director Oliver Parker returning to Oscar Wilde, namely The Importance of Being Earnest, which concerns the wooing of Gwendolen Fairfax (O'Connor) and Cecily Cardew (Witherspoon) by Jack and Algy.
		The problem, of course, is that Earnest is a far better-known play and was already successfully filmed once, in 1952, with Michael Redgrave and Edith Evans under Anthony Asquith's direction.
		Her main concern was that it would be a too theatrical grasp of it, but what appealed to me about her in the first place is that she always brings a very deep humanity to whatever she does.
	hem.passagen.se /lmw/earnest_articles.html (4415 words)

	Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest
		Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest
		Earnest fixates on the manners and morals of the pretentious and the manor-born, skewering all and sundry with some of Wilde’s finest collection of epigrams and nasty asides.
		At the New York premiere of "The Importance of Being Earnest," he sat with two of the film's stars, COLIN FIRTH and FRANCES O'CONNOR.
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	The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		And one-liners are the crucial part of The Importance of Being Earnest.
		It comes from deep inside a man that was being forced to conform and become something he wasn't and he refused.
		The Importance of Being Earnest was Oscar Wilde's last play, and that is the only thing about this film that isn't side splitting hilarious.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/BeingEarnest/BeingEarnest.html (950 words)

	The Importance Of Being Earnest at DVDwolf.com
		Worthing (Firth) has invented a brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind to visit the ravishing Gwendolyn (O'Connor).
		Things start to go awry when they end up together in the country and their deceptions are discovered - threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits.
		And it's not just that The Importance of Being Earnest is funny, it is, but there is more, it is well acted, nicely paced, and makes me feel sad for what is considered comedy nowadays.
	www.dvdwolf.com /Reviews/I/Importance_Of_Being_Earnest.html (402 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST"
		The Making of "The Importance of Being Earnest" - 7+ minute segment about the film's production including clips from it, behind the scenes footage and various interviews.
		While it might not be up there with the 1952 filmed adaptation or various staged versions of Wilde's play, and may not appease the purists, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is still entertaining enough to warrant a passing grade.
		The Importance of Being Earnest is now available for purchase by clicking here.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2002/the_importance_of_being_earnest.html (909 words)

	The Importance of Being Earnest reviewed, Mountain Area Information Network
		But Earnest has continued to delight audiences in the hundred-plus years since his death, and it is through this play Wilde lives on.
		No man does, that’s his.” “In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” The conflicts of the plot are resolved in the most improbable denouement, but who cares.
		Her timing is impeccable, and she uses her voice to hilarious effect as she flutes it up and down the scale, registering dismay, disdain, and disapproval.
	www.main.nc.us /theater/index.cgi?theimportanceofbeingearnest (979 words)

	Images - The Importance of Being Earnest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Some critics attacked Oliver Parker's recent version of The Importance of Being Earnest for its attempt to make a movie out of this most hermetic of drawing room comedies.
		Introduce improbable dream sequences and foolish flashbacks of made-up histories for some of the characters.
		Parker's desire to "cinematize" the movie is understandable given modern audiences' impatience with filmed plays, but it can also be read as a specific response to the faithful, almost idolatrous approach to author Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest seen in Anthony Asquith's celebrated 1952 version.
	www.imagesjournal.com /2002/reviews/beingearnest (91 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Importance Of Being Earnest [2002]: DVD: Rupert Everett,Colin Firth,Frances O'Connor (II),Reese ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy masterpiece set during the Victorian era.
		The Importance Of Being Earnest is faithful to Oscar Wilde's intricate comic play of class and etiquette.
		Both men have a love life that hinges on being "Earnest." This story is more interested in relations and lack of and fortune and the lack of.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Importance-Being-Earnest-Rupert-Everett/dp/B000063W2L (1157 words)

	Colin Firth in The Importance of Being Earnest
		The filming of The Importance of Being Earnest at a country house in Buckinghamshire proved almost as entertaining as the play itself, not least because the real-life sparring between the two leading men, Rupert Everett and Colin Firth.
		Miramax, meanwhile, is still deliberating dates for its The Importance of Being Earnest—based on an Oscar Wilde play, with Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Judi Dench in the leads—which had been rumored for June 2nd.
		The Importance of Being Colin: Though Bridget Jones' Diary star Colin Firth is excited about bringing Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest to the big-screen with Rupert Everett, Dame Judi Dench and Reese Witherspoon, he notes that doing such a classic piece is a double- edged sword.
	www.firth.com /earnest.html (4451 words)

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