The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.
Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play\'s major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as Serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian way.
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 personae to escape burdensome social obligations.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde