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Importance of Being Earnest

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  I mportance of Being Earnest                      _  By   Oscar Wilde                 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde  was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.                 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.                   Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the ...
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            M acbeth                   __ by William Shakespeare                    Macbeth is the greatest tragedy of William Shakespeare written during the Elizabethan age. Shakespeare was the greatest writer or poet of the Elizabethan period and mostly known for his tragadies . His works are mostly related to the political theme of the time.                      Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606.It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign.It was first published in the Folio...
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The Rover

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                 The Rover                          __ by  Aphra Behn                [ Aphra Behn , 1640 - 1689 ]              The Play " The Rover " is written by Aphra Behn. The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer (1664), and features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen and women in Naples at Carnival time. According to Restoration poet John Dryden, it "lacks the manly vitality of Killigrew's play, but shows greater refinement of expression." The play stood for three centuries as "Behn's most popular and most respected play."                        ...
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