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A Trivial Comedy for Serious People - Its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self - conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity - Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, is prepared to be re - christened to obtain the Christian name - Earnest - his beloved Gwendolen requires in a husband, he then has to confront the stigma of being the illegitimate child of a servant, before fortune and a benevolent dramatist, reveal his true and entirely respectable identity. This is the only one - volume edition of the play to include an appendix with earlier versions and additional scenes that allow an appreciation of Wildes creative process.
