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en-wikipedia-org-4814		The Importance of Being Earnest - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10834	930	71	The play was first produced at the St James's Theatre on Valentine's Day 1895.[14] It was freezing cold but Wilde arrived dressed in "florid sobriety", wearing a green carnation.[12] The audience, according to one report, "included many members of the great and good, former cabinet ministers and privy councillors, as well as actors, writers, academics, and enthusiasts".[15] Allan Aynesworth, who played Algernon Moncrieff, recalled to Hesketh Pearson that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph than [that] first night".[16] Aynesworth was himself "debonair and stylish", and Alexander, who played Jack Worthing, "demure".[17] As Wilde's work came to be read and performed again, it was The Importance of Being Earnest that received the most productions.[50] By the time of its centenary the journalist Mark Lawson described it as "the second most known and quoted play in English after Hamlet."[51]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4814.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4814.txt