The Importance of Being Earnest
Unlike many other plays at this time, The Importance of Being Earnest'''s light story was not about serious social or political issues. This was something that reviewers at that time were not sure what to think about. Though they were not sure of how serious Wilde was, they agreed that the play was clever, funny, and popular. George Bernard Shaw, for example, reviewed the play in the Saturday Review. He said that comedy plays should not only be funny but touching, saying, "I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter". Later in a letter he said that the play was "extremely funny" but "really heartless".