An ideal husband: A 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde

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Imagine Spot: In the 2002 movie, Cecily has several involving her as a maiden being rescued by a knight. When she meets "Ernest" (Algie), she imagines him as a knight and then imagines his visor snapping shut when she learns he isn't really named Ernest. a b c Bostridge, Mark. " Earnest the musical? Earnest the sequel? Don't laugh...", The Independent on Sunday, 1 September 2002 It has been said that the use of the name Ernest may have been a homosexual in-joke. [83] In 1892, three years before Wilde wrote the play, John Gambril Nicholson had published the book of pederastic poetry Love in Earnest. The sonnet Of Boys' Names included the verse: "Though Frank may ring like silver bell / And Cecil softer music claim / They cannot work the miracle / –'Tis Ernest sets my heart a-flame." [84] The word "earnest" may also have been a code-word for homosexual, as in: "Is he earnest?" in the same way that "Is he so?" and "Is he musical?" were employed. [83] Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who had met two of the play's original cast (Irene Vanbrugh and Allan Aynesworth) and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that "Earnest" held any sexual connotations: [85]Wilde kept his homosexuality a secret. He married and had two sons. But in 1891, Wilde began an affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, a young British poet and aristocrat 16 years his junior.

The play is set in "The Present", which was 1895 at the time. [70] Act I: Algernon Moncrieff's flat in Half Moon Street, W [ edit ]

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Alexander von Zemlinsky wrote an opera based on a German translation of the play, entitled Eine florentinische Tragödie, which premiered in 1917. Gaiety Theatre", Freeman's Journal, 26 October 1896, p. 4; and " An Ideal Husband at the Theatre Royal", Edinburgh Evening News, 20 October 1896, p. 2 Shaun Sutton; Stuart Burge; Joan Plowright; Paul McGann; Amanda Redman; Rupert Frazer; Natalie Ogle; Gemma Jones; Alec McCowen; Steve Eveleigh; Ilona Sekacz; Oscar Wilde (2002), The Importance of Being Earnest (VHS video), Burbank: Warner Home Video, OCLC 49717562