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Jack looks perfectly furious, and goes to the door.
Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious! Sometimes he is so serious that I think he cannot be quite well.
Enter Jack slowly from the back of the garden. He is dressed in the deepest...
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When Jack tells Lady Bracknell that Cecily will be a rich woman, Lady Bracknell immediately changes her mind about Cecily and decides that she will be a suitable wife for Algernon.
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Algernon's throwaway quip to Lane that "anyone can play [piano] accurately but I play with wonderful expression" is a good thumbnail of Wilde's philosophy of art. Wilde was heavily influenced by Walter Pater and the other aesthetes of the...
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