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[11] [12] Among his many changes he altered the subtitle from "a Serious Comedy for Trivial People" to "a Trivial Comedy for Serious People", [13] and renamed the characters Lady Brancaster and Algernon Montford as Lady Bracknell and Algernon Moncrieff. [14] Wilde wrote the part of John Worthing with the actor-manager Charles Wyndham in mind.
His friend, Algernon Moncrieff, is of moderate means and has also created an imaginary character, Bunbury. Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, has caught the eye of Jack. Jack's ward in the country, Cecily Cardew, has caught the eye of Algernon. Lady Bracknell rules the roost with her heavy-handed social mores. The story begins in London.
Gwendolen and her formidable mother Lady Bracknell (sung by a male bass) call on Algernon. Asserting the superiority of German music over French, Lady Bracknell gives a rendition of Friedrich Schiller's Ode to Joy. Jack proposes to Gwendolen. She accepts, but seems to love him mostly because of his professed name of Ernest.
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Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
In 1895 Leclercq originated the role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. The critics of The Times and The Observer remarked on how she brought out the cynicism of the character. [2] Her last role was with Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery at the Haymarket; she played Mrs Beechinor in H A Jones's The Manoeuvres of Jane. She played ...
The actress played Mrs. Frank opposite Maximilian Schell in a 1980 NBC adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” played Lady Bracknell in a 1986 BBC adaptation of “The Importance of Being ...
The Importance of Being Earnest is a 2002 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Oliver Parker, based on Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners of the same name.A British-American co-production, the film stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon, and Judi Dench in lead roles, with Tom Wilkinson, Frances O'Connor, Anna Massey, and Edward Fox in supporting roles.