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- Verlag: Simon & Brown
- Seitenzahl: 156
- Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
- Gewicht: 387g
- ISBN-13: 9781613828397
- ISBN-10: 161382839X
- Artikelnr.: 46299437
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In contrast to much theatre of the time, The Importance of Being Earnest's light plot does not tackle serious social and political issues, something of which contemporary reviewers were wary. Though unsure of Wilde's seriousness as a dramatist, they recognized the play's cleverness, humour and popularity with audiences. Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review, arguing that comedy should touch as well as amuse, "I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter." Later in a letter he said, the play, though "extremely funny," was Wilde's "first really heartless one." In The World, William Archer wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of meaning, "What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle, whether of art or morals, creates its own canons and conventions, and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?"