Word: ticktock
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Earnest, talked up in academic circles as the best farce in the English language, everywhere fails to treat its Gilbertian plot with Gilbertian high spirits. As artificial as the Yellowed Nineties which gave it birth, it has the pasty look and studied jauntiness of an elderly fop. The steady ticktock of its epigrams is broken only when one of them happens to chime. As Wilde said of the youthful Max Beerbohm, the gods have endowed the play's elegant, orchidaceous young men with the gift of perpetual...