| LC control no. | n 87862864 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest |
| Variant(s) | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Oscar Wilde's The importance of being earnest Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Definitive four-act version of The importance of being earnest |
| See also | Adapted as opera (work): Barry, Gerald, 1952- Importance of being earnest Adapted as motion picture (work): Importance of being earnest (Motion picture : 1952) Adapted as motion picture (work): Importance of being earnest (Motion picture : 2002) Adapted as opera (work): Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, 1895-1968. Importance of being earnest |
| Form of work | Play Drama Farces Comedy plays Comedies |
| Beginning date | 1895 |
| Place of origin | Great Britain |
| Found in | His The definitive four-act version of The importance of being earnest, c1987. His Oscar Wilde's The importance of being earnest. Wikipedia, August 11, 2014 (The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations; Genre: Comedy, farce; Setting: London and an estate in Hertfordshire; Apart from multiple "made-for-television" versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it. In 1992 Kurt Baker directed a version using an all-black cast, set in the United States. Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted An Ideal Husband by Wilde, made the 2002 film) |
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