The Importance of Being Earnest

There are lots of really excellent online study guides for "The Importance of Being Earnest". Remember, study guides are a starting point for understanding story and character, language and themes. The examiners will have read them too so avoid simply reproducing them.


 * Sparknotes Earnest
 * Penguin Earnest
 * Booknotes Earnest
 * Wikipedia Earnest

If you have never read drama as literature before there are lots of useful sites. Here are just a few.
 * Drama Glossary
 * Wikipedia Drama
 * Thesis for the Analysis of Dramatic Texts
 * Basics of Studying Drama

Additional Reading: Victorian Womanhood
 * Wilde and Society
 * Manners and Irony
 * Satire
 * Satire in Characters
 * Marriage in Victorian Society
 * Aesthetes, Decadents and Symbolists
 * Food In Earnest