'The Importance of Being Earnest' has been described as a 'timeless play,' How do you account for its continuing success?

... 'The Importance of Being Earnest' has been described as a 'timeless play,' How do you account for its continuing success? Oscar Wilde's clever use of language, characters, dramatic irony and absurdity makes his play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' very funny. Wilde wrote the play with intentions of making a mockery of the upper-class society's manners and values. He does this very successfully by having his upper-class characters over-expressing their manners and their language to such an extent his characters are seen to be quite absurd. However, not all of the humour comes from mocking upper-class manners and values. The plot is quite ridiculous and so adds to the laughter of his audiences. The final result of adding all the funny parts about the play together is a play that it can't fail to make a modern audience laugh, even though it was not written for a modern audience. The language of

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