Wilde's most enduringly popular play- The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. It's a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Theater Series A paperback and e-book series published by Intra. Global readability, Italian charm.