The play's plot thrives on witty banter and the most improbable coincidences: the dandy Algernon and dapper Jack are best friends who, unbeknown to each other, both assume different identities in London and the countryside. When Jack ...See moreThe play's plot thrives on witty banter and the most improbable coincidences: the dandy Algernon and dapper Jack are best friends who, unbeknown to each other, both assume different identities in London and the countryside. When Jack proposes to Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen, and Algernon falls for Jack 's ward, Cecily, both do so using the pseudonym Ernest. Amid these mistaken identities and giddy confusion towers Gwendolen's mother, the imposing Lady Bracknell, as a paragon of Victorian propriety, who refuses to be anything but earnest.
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