The Importance Of Being Earnest

b' About the Book: Importance of Being Earnest\n\n\n\nA Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Its subtitle is the best summary of a play\nthat is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its\nhighly self - conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and\npersonal identity - Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria\nStation and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re - christened to\nobtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a\nhusband, he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a\nservant, before fortune '