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IOBEImportance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde play)


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I intend none of those adjectives as pejorative; these attitudes have resulted in superb works of entertainment for both straights and gays: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Salome, the novels of Ronald Firbank, Noel Coward's plays, the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, the films of Derek Jarman and John Waters.
A gay film by Commonweal
IN ``THE Importance of Being Earnest,'' Lady Bracknell famously said that to lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
LAST-MINUTE CHANGE IS GOOD FOR VON DOHNANYI, L.A. PHIL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The only one of Wilde's plays which is universally regarded as a classic is his last, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Is it politics or art that sustains some literary reputations? by Goodden, Herman / Catholic Insight
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