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Words words words (Quotation from Hamlet - play by William Shakespeare) 

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest was an early experiment in Victorian melodrama. Part satire, part comedy of manners, and part intellectual farce, this play seems to have nothing at stake (aucun enjeu)  because the world it presents is so blatantly (de façon flagrante) and ostentatiously artificial. Below the surface of the light, brittle (fragile) comedy, however, is a serious subtext that takes aim at self-righteous moralism and hypocrisy, the very aspects of Victorian society that would, in part, bring about Wilde’s downfall.(aucun enjeu)

... So to fully understand the play, we have to study what is meant by Victorian society. 

Video of the play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYm-xy1D5s&feature=related