A character in this play prepares cucumber sandwiches for Lady Bracknell, which the butler Lane claims to have eaten before she arrives. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play, in which Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff pretend to have the same name and use “Bunburying” to avoid social events.
ANSWER: The Importance of Being Earnest
[10e] This Irish gay playwright wrote The Importance of Being Earnest, in addition to the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
ANSWER: Oscar Wilde
[10h] In The Importance of Being Earnest, this character is the governess to Cecily Cardew. At the end of the play, this character reveals that she previously left Jack in a handbag at Victoria Station.
ANSWER: Miss Prism [or Laetitia Prism]
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