from Wicked Local Milton

You may be familiar with the adage “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” It’s a line from a poem by Sir Walter Scott, but it also applies to Oscar Wilde’s late 19th-century comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

In the story, Jack/Ernest Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, two British aristocrats, are many things, but earnest is not one of them. You see, they both often lie about who they are and what their real names are. But that doesn’t always work out, and when people get caught behaving badly, it can be rather funny.(Read the full story here.)