Oscar Wilde: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - Making fun of Victorian values and society and parodying dramatic conventions

Making fun of Victorian values and society and parodying dramatic conventions

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British

• Author: Bernadette Wonner
• ISBN: 9783638243667
• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Publication: January 9, 2004
• Imprint: GRIN Verlag
• Language: English

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), LMU Munich (Anglistics), course: Advanced Seminar Literature Studies, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Die Arbeit untersucht, inwieweit Oscar Wildes Stück die Werte des Viktorianischen Zeitalters satirisch beleuchtet und dabei auch mit den damals gängigen dramatischen Konventionen bricht.