This book is well known – I think I can very well call it famous – and most people know the plot, if not from the book itself then from the film or theatre. I’ll remind briefly that in the first act we meet a poor flower girl Eliza Doolittle speaking a dreadful dialect of English, Professor Higgins, an expert of phonetics, and Colonel Pickering, who is extremely interested in Professor’s research but has only just met him in the flesh. Next day as Higgins demonstrate his art to Pickering, Eliza pays him a visit to offer to take lessons of good English from him, since that would enable her to become “a lady in a flower shop”. Unfortunately, Higgins is as rude as could be, and his charges are way too high for the poor girl, but Pickering volunteers to pay for the lessons after offering Higgins a bet that he won’t be able to pass Eliza as a duchess in six months.
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“The Importance of Being Earnest” is a light-hearted play – and like everything written by Oscar Wilde it’s absolutely perfect. The author has produced the greatest abuse of Victorian morals, but in such a charming way that nobody could possibly be angry with him for this.
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