Oscar Wilde 
The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People [EPUB ebook] 

The play was first produced at the St James's Theatre on Valentine's Day 1895 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 From the play's effervescent beginnings in Algernon Moncrieff's London flat to its hilarious denouement in the drawing room of Jack Worthing's country manor in Hertfordshire