TIOBE - critical quotes Flashcards
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Eric Bentley
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The play is about earnestness, that is victorian solemnity, which means priggishness, hypocrisy and lack of irony.
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Richard Aldington
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The play is a comedy-farce without a moral, and it is a masterpiece.
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Katherine Worth
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As well as being an existential farce, The Importance of Being Earnest is a supreme demolition of the late 19th century social and moral attitudes, the triumphal conclusion to his career as a revolutionary moralist.
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William Archer
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The play raises no principles, whether of art or morals.”
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George Bernard-Shaw, who saw the stage as as serious venue for political action:
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Though he found it humorous, Shaw preferred ‘to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it’
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