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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Type of Work:

Comic, farcical play

Setting

London, and a country house in Hertfordshire, England; the 1890s

Principal Characters

Jack Worthing, gentleman of the Manor House; also known as "Ernest"
Celcily Cardew, Worthing's pretty young ward
Miss Prism, Cecily's governess
Algernon Moncrieff, Worthing's friend
Lady Augusta Braknell, Algernon's aunt
Gwendolen Fairfax, Lady Bracknell's daughter
The Reverend Canon Chasublc, Rector of Woolton