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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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“Earnest Lies and Serious Nonsense: Oscar Wilde’s Comedy of Perfect Pretence” A comedy where names matter more than character, love begins with a misunderstanding, and sincerity is strictly optional. ABS BELIEVES Society prefers well-dressed lies to badly spoken truths.Wilde laughs at morality because he understands it too well.In a world obsessed with appearances, pretending is […]

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1. The Neoclassical Age — The Tyranny of Wit and the Triumph of Form

When poetry abandoned the heart for the head, and drama bowed before decorum. From The Professor’s Desk The theatres had reopened, the crowds had returned, and London once again hummed with song and laughter. Yet beneath this glittering surface, English literature had changed irreversibly. The Puritan age had stripped poetry of its excesses, taught writers