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Importance of Being Earnest, The (3 Act Version)

  • Oscar Wilde
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Victorian (British and American)
  • 5M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573601903

This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies.

This version is in the Public Domain and does not require a licensing fee for performance.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Victorian (British and American)
This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity ever put into a play.



Premiere Production: The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed on 14 February 1895 at the St. James's Theatre in London.
  • Casting: 5M, 4F

  • JOHN WORTHING, J.P.
    ALGERNON MONCRIEFF
    REV. CANON CHASUBLE, D.D.
    MERRIMAN - butler
    LANE - manservant
    LADY BRACKNELL
    HON. GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX
    CECILY CARDEW
    MISS PRISM - governess
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    This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of 'manufactured' mistaken identity ever put into a play.

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