ENG122H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Dandy, Comedic Device, Chasuble
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The importance of being ernest oscar wilde. He was homosexual but had a wife and two kids. Importance of being ernest was his last play because he was arrested shortly ater. He had been having an afair with lorde douglas - the father got wind of the afair and that made him upset. He sued queensbury for liable - saying lies about him - terrible idea because accusaion of anal sex was true. Theatres didn"t want something to do with the scandal. Wordplay bc ironic: oten say things that make you sound like a smartass, queensbury"s defence - dancing around the subject. Won case bc liable was true - legal fees let him bankrupt. Importance of being ernest: writen 16 years ater a doll"s house, everyone wriing against melodrama + romance. Chose instead to imitate the stylisic aspect, remove the moral aspect on them.
