The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s famous farcical comedy, first performed in 1895, that satirizes Victorian society through its witty dialogue and plot about two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, who invent fictitious identities (like the name “Ernest”) to escape social obligations and pursue romance, leading to humorous complications involving love, marriage, and identity.