Who’s Who?
This protagonist was found as an infant in a handbag at Victoria Station.
Jack
This is the name Jack uses while he is in London to lead a life of pleasure.
Ernest
Finish this Algernon quote: "The truth is rarely pure and never..."
Simple
Jack was found in a handbag in the cloak-room of this specific railway station.
Victoria Station? (Bonus: The Brighton Line)
He is Jack's best friend who creates a fictional permanent invalid named Bunbury to escape social obligations.
Algernon Moncrieff
Algernon uses this term to describe the practice of creating a fictional person to use as an excuse to leave town.
Bunburying
Lady Bracknell famously tells Jack, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like..." this.
Carelessness
Algernon finds out Jack’s real identity by looking at the inscription inside this personal item.
a cigarette case
This "formidable" woman is Gwendolen’s mother and the ultimate gatekeeper of Victorian social standing.
Who is Lady Bracknell
Both Gwendolen and Cecily claim they can only love a man who possesses this specific Christian name.
Ernest
Gwendolen tells Cecily that in matters of grave importance, this—rather than sincerity—is the vital thing.
Style
Gwendolen and Cecily first realize they are "engaged to the same man" during this awkward social ritual.
tea time
She is Jack’s young ward in the country who has fallen in love with Jack’s "wicked brother" before even meeting him.
Cecily Cardew
To please their fiancées, both Jack and Algernon make appointments with Dr. Chasuble to undergo this religious rite.
christening (or baptism)
This is the specific type of food Algernon obsessively eats in Act I, much to Jack's annoyance, despite them being for Lady Bracknell.
Cucumber Sandwiches
This character is revealed to be Jack's biological mother's sister, making her his aunt.
Lady Bracknell
This governess once wrote a three-volume novel and accidentally swapped a manuscript for a baby.
Miss Prism
Jack claims his "brother" Ernest died in this city from a "severe chill."
Paris
According to Miss Prism, this is the definition of fiction: "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what..."
Fiction means
At the end of the play, Jack discovers his father’s name was Ernest, meaning this "younger brother" is actually his real brother.
Algernon