"No Child's Play" tells the story of courtship, engagement and masquerade-young Jack and Caanen Monklev pursue two young women, but they are both bent on marrying a man named Ren Zhen. The story is set in the fashionable London social circle, full of machine interest and sense of carving, and the appearance has been carefully polished. This play, which premiered on Valentine's Day in 1895, is Wilde's last play.

The whole play is divided into three or four acts, depending on the staged version. 1February, 89514th premiered at St. James's Theatre in London.

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Creation background

1894 From August to September, Wilde spent his holiday with his wife constance Wilde and his sons Cyril and Vivian in Worthing, a seaside town in West Sussex, England. There, he wrote more than half of the classic "No Child's Play".

Its subtitle is "trivial comedy of serious people"; In a letter to his friend Robert Ross, Wilde explained the philosophy of the play: "We should treat all trivial matters very seriously and all major events in life, and we should not expose them from the heart with good reasons."

Brief introduction of the author

Oscar Wilde (185410/0/October16-1900101October 30th) on.

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