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The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson.

"Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

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我弹琴并不准确，要弹得准确，谁都会。可是我弹得表情十足。就弹琴而言，我的长处在感情。至于技巧嘛，我用来对付生活。

Algernon: I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

每个人犯了错，都美其名为经验

就弹琴而言，我的长处在感情。置于技巧嘛，我用来对付生活。

浪漫的基本精神全在琢磨不定。万一我结了婚，就一定给要忘记自己是结了婚的。

到头来，所有女人都变得像自己的母亲。那是女人的悲剧。可是没一个男人像自己的母亲。那是男人的悲剧。

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The text of this Norton Critical Edition of The Importance of Being Earnest is the established three-act version. Originally in four acts, Wilde shortened it to three at the urging of George Alexander, the owner of the St. James Theatre and first actor to play Jack Worthing. The play is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions.

"Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics Joseph Donohue, Regenia Gagnier, and Karl Beckson.

"Reviews and Reactions" collects contemporary responses to The Importance of Being Earnest, among them George Bernard Shaw's famous dissenting view and the American assessment by H. F. "Essays in Criticism" includes six diverse assessments of Wilde and the play by E. H. Mikhail, Camille Paglia, Christopher Craft, Michael Patrick Gillespie, Peter Raby, and Richard Haslam.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

• 作者：Sophie 发布时间：2011-05-11 22:40:39

  A flawless comedy.

• 作者：JamesPetrelli 发布时间：2017-12-19 22:52:47

  2017年读1895年的书，竟然不觉得过时，里头的包袱抖出来还是笑喷，拯救了我在砖厂搬砖时的谷底心情。

• 作者：- -. - . . 发布时间：2022-03-23 21:01:16

  对当年写论文真是帮了大忙的一本书

• 作者：Chicology 发布时间：2012-01-14 18:41:25

  读完精彩绝伦的正文然后直接跳到萧伯纳的毒辣点评，真他妈过瘾！萧伯纳用明显带有精英分子式的蔑视说（he would confess to a chuckle~）：“If the public ever becomes intelligent enough to know when it is really enjoying itself and when it is not, there will be an end of farcical comedy.” 另外在Backgrounds里彻彻底底地学了一个法语词儿——“fin de siècle”

• 作者：Zoe喜欢吃菠萝 发布时间：2023-05-15 21:04:22

  不好玩，但是可以写论文

• 作者：逃脱矩阵 发布时间：2021-04-19 05:04:19

  es2019最新语法，看完真是受益匪浅，以为自己精通es了，结果发现自己不懂的还是太多，我离阿里p7还是差的远。和javascript权威指南（es2020）相比，两本书js部分都是360面，权威指南web api方面150，这本书500面，做网页开发的话这本书更详细。阮一峰老师的es6标准入门可以不用再翻了。

• Wilde的台词功力

  作者：Antonio 发布时间：2008-01-13 23:51:59

  王尔德算不上一个好的剧作家，恩。比如这部the importance of being earnest，无论男女、老少、主仆，十来号人说起话来都是一个调调，我晕~~ 一样伶牙俐齿，玩世不恭，每个人的嘴里都时不时冒出几句王氏招牌悖论，害得我老觉得是王尔德一人分饰多角自言自语了三幕！自负机智诙谐的作者们好像都有点这个毛病，比如简奥斯丁，傲慢与偏见里凡是聪明人，比如Lizzy和她爸爸，还有Darcy，说起话来的感觉都基本都差不多。

   

  话说回来，这样要情节没情节，要角色没角色的剧，还能让人津津有味的看完，王尔德的台词功力实在是强啊！突然觉得，我们的某种贺岁片走得好像也是这条路线。。。本来打算学习一下人家说话的艺术，可是总是还没有念完一句，就笑岔了气，放弃放弃~~ 决定从现在开始纯当笑话书看。

• the importance of being earnest

  作者：好你个坐忘道 发布时间：2020-03-04 10:04:13

  This is a comedy about four men and women, it also about Earnest and Bundary.It satirizing the hypocrisy and boredom of the British upper class and the so-called high morality and ideal in the Victorian era.

  The story has two heroes.One is Jack, Cecily's guardian. However, Jack had been deceiving Cecily that he had a brother named Ernest in London. To help his brother, Jack often had to leave Cecily and go to London. In Cecily's eyes, Jack is a very serious person, because Jack believes that "When one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects". He meets Algernon's cousin, Gwendolen, and falls in love with her. Algernon pretends to have a sick friend on the outskirts of town named Bunbury. He thought that Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If it wasn 't for Bunbury' s extraordinary bad health, for instance, He would not do what he wants to do.

  At the beginning of the story, Jack goes to Algernon's house to propose to Gwendolen. Because Jack left cigarette case in the smoking room the last time he dined here.The two heroes know each other's secret. Next, Gwendolen and her mother, Bracknell, visit. When Bracknell and Algernon go into the musically room.Jack takes this time to propose to Gwendolen. She likes Jack because his name is Ernest. But her mother disagreed because she was upset that Jack had been left in a handbag abandoned when he was a little, until Tom Cardew, who was also Cecily's grandfather, found out and adopted him.Jack tells Algernon, if Gwendolen accepts him, he would going to kill his brother——he's going to find an excuse to announce his brother is dead. And Cecily is too much interested in Ernest. So he is going to get rid of Ernest. Jack plan to baptized and changes his name. Algernon arrives early at Cecily's apartment, as Jack's brother Earnest. Cecily fell in love with Ernest because she had heard so much about him before. She told Jack she and Algernon are planning to marry.

  Gwendolen comes to the suburb to meet Jack, but Cecily is alone. The argued over who was Mr Earnest's fiancee. After the two men arrive, Algernon and Jack's secret were at expousure during the conversation. Later the two men were asked why they had lied. After each had given a satisfactory answer, so Cecily and Gwendolen forgave them. Then Bracknell arrives. Algernon also tells Cecily that he and Cecily are engaged. Bracknell is not satisfied with Cecily at first. Bracknell asks Jack about Cecily's background until Bracknell's attitude changes when it comes to Cecily's inheritance. Jack, Cecily's guardian, does not approve of her marriage to Algy unless Bracknell agrees to marry her daughter to him. She still disagreed,Just before she left, she heard about Cecily's tutor, miss Prism, and asked to see her.Prism said that she placed the baby in the handbag,left it in the cloak– room of one of the larger railway stations in London. Jack asks again and takes the bag down from upstairs. They found that the child was Jack himself. Jack's father is Algernon's father, so Jack is Algernon's brother. Jack's Christian name follows his father's, It is Earnest . At last everyone was with his mate together.

  About title

  In The title The importance of being Earnest, Ernest and Earnest refer to Jack bunburyist's name. But what the hero does is a complete violation of Earnest,this name revealing the hypocrisy and boredom of high society, as well as the typical seriousness, prudish hypocrisy and lack of humor of Victoria. The ending of the story,“Jack: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I 've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”He realized the Importance of sincerity, because the above people's hypocrisy and dishonesty, which brought them a lot of trouble, finally found that he was really called Ernest (that is to say, to be a ernest person) to bring about a perfect ending.

  读书标记

  王德尔是唯美主义代表人物，唯美主义者认为艺术不应具有任何说教的因素，而是追求单纯的美感，为艺术而艺术。然而从这个剧本上来说，王尔德不是一个彻头彻尾的唯美主义者，文中时刻对存在的尖锐社会问题进行揭示和反映。调动一切喜剧因素, 借一个荒诞, 甚至有些不合常理的故事, 挖苦英国上层阶级, 讥讽维多利亚时代所谓高尚的道德与理想 。该剧不以情节取胜, 出彩全在对白。剧中人物一个个嬉笑怒骂, 语藏机锋, 妙语警句层出不穷。

  关于名字的双关：

  Ernest与Earnest同音并且双关。Earnest意为真诚的，真挚的，严肃认真。两位少女都爱上了“Ernest”( There is something in that name that seems to in-spire absolute confidence ) 因为这个名字让人感觉到放心。 然而他们的爱人却不“Earnest”，而是“Bunburyist”德以他惯用的喜剧颠覆和夸张手法嘲笑了维多利亚所谓高尚的道德和理想主义。`认真' ( earnest) 这一词指代了维多利亚特有的严肃, 假正经和虚伪, 还有缺乏幽默感。【值得一提的是，在余光中先生的翻译中，Ernest翻译成任真（认真），Bunbury翻译成梁勉仁（两面人），曲达无遗】

  在文中，因为名字而引发双关的句子：①Algernon.：You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life.

  ②Algernon：I may mention that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist.And I am quite sure of it now.

  Jack：Bunburyist？ What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist？

  Algernon：You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest，in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like.I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury，in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  还有西西丽的家庭教师的名字“Miss prism”，与“prison”属于同音双关，意思是她像个牢笼紧锁着Cecily。

  关于婚姻爱情的探讨：

  ①Algernon.：I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.

  ②Miss Prism. No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.

  【当恋爱进入婚姻，双方彼此熟悉，就再难以热恋】

  关于追名逐利的批判：

  “A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country.”

  【婚姻的标准是男方的财力，甚至精确到门牌号。可见Bracknel 的势力苛刻贪婪。】

  关于不切实际的讽刺：

  ①Jack. You really love me, Gwendolen?

  Gwendolen. Passionately!

  Jack. Darling! You don’t know how happy you’ve made me.

  Gwendolen. My own Ernest!

  Jack. But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest?

  Gwendolen. But your name is Ernest.

  Jack. Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? Do you mean to say you couldn’t love me then?

  Gwendolen. [Glibly.] Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation,and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them

  Algernon. But how did we become engaged?

  Cecily. Well, ever since dear Uncle Jack first confessed to us that he had a younger brother who was very wicked and bad, you of course have formed the chief topic of conversation between myself and Miss

  Prism. And of course a man who is much talked abou attractive. One feels there must be something in him, after all. I daresay it was foolish of me, but I fell in love with you, Ernest.

  【两个女孩都因为名字而爱上了Ernest，这十分的荒谬可笑。】