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Pistes de travail possibles

Dive into the moralism and constraints of Victorian society through Wilde's comedy of manners. Analyze themes like marriage, double life, and earnestness, along with literary devices and key questions. Further explore with film adaptations, Victorian authors, and modern reinterpretations.

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Pistes de travail possibles

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  1. Pistes de travail possibles The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

  2. 1854-1900

  3. Victorian Society • Issues: • The moralism of Victorian society • The constraints of morality • Earnestness: the Importance of Not Being Earnest • The nature of marriage • Double life: (Earnest / Jack – Algernon/ Bunburying) • Literarydeviceslike: • Puns: Earnest / Ernest/ Miss Prim / misprision…

  4. -Type of work: a play- Genre:social comedy / comedy of manners/ satire s 1895

  5. Film directed by Anthony Asquith and released in 1952 Film released in 2002 and directed by Alan Parker

  6. Thesisstatement: key-question: To whatextentcanwebeearnest in a society full of pretence ?

  7. - Working on quotationsfrom the play:- Learning them by heart and being able to recite them as well as possible! • Working on the quotationsfrom the play and learningthem by heart! • «  The truthisrarely pure and never simple » • « In matters of grave importance, style, • not sincerity, is the vital thing » • « To benatural is such a verydifficult pose • to keep up » • «  Never speakdisrespectfully of society – • only people whocan’tgetintoit do that »

  8. OtherVictorianauthors • Discovering and presentingotherVictorianauthors like the novelists, Charles Dickens, Lewis Caroll, • George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, • or poets like Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, • Talking about otherplays, GeorgeBernard Shaw’splays, for example! • Let us not forgetThe Happy Prince • and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

  9. Extractfrom the play

  10. Working on a scene Les spécificités du genre: le théâtre • Asking the students how theycouldperformit and thenwatching the sameextractfrom the playdirected by Stephen Wrentmore (2013) • OR / AND • Discoveringa new stagingwithnew theatricalscenery. (another stage adaptation by Adrew London and Emma Reeves • Discovering the playdirected by the French director • Gilbert Désveaux • OR / AND • Working and comparingthe costumes chosenfromtwodifferent performances / WORKING ON THE MUSIC CHOSEN. Les spécificités du genre : le théâtre Idées de réécriture: version moderne

  11. Watching the trailer and comparing a scenefrom the film adaptation to the correspondingscenefrom the book

  12. Final task WRITING AND ACTING OUT AN EARNEST AND HYPOCRITICAL PROPOSAL ( PAIR WORK) « il serait intéressant de jouer la même scène et de montrer que la manière de jouer peut modifier le sens ( la voix, l’intonation, gestes, ton, timing, expression , déplacements. »

  13. BRANCHING OUT: Paintings ( pre-raphaeliteworks of art) Discoveries ( The Oxford English Dictionary…) Women in Victorian society… Lady Lilith by Dante Gabriel Rossetti – 1866-1868

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