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Style

The play is considered an intermediate point between the 18th-century comedies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith on the one hand and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest on the other.

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Famous quotes containing the word style:

    “Style is the man himself.
    [Le style c’est l’homme même.]”
    —Leclerc, George-Louis Buffon, Comte De (1707–1788)

    “Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)