Victorian Age, The Importance Of Being Earnest In the Victorian Age, which encompassed the last quarter of the nineteenth century, England was at its highest point. The British Empire extended all over the world, prompting the phrase, "The sun never sets in the British Empire." The era saw the flourishing of the English aristocracy, but much like the contemporaneous Gilded Age in America, the rise of the elite created a huge wealth disparity between the …showed first 75 words of 1719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1719 total…fun at the aristocracy, the literary world, marriage, English manners and custom, women, men, love, religion and all sorts of other staples in modern society. Furthermore, it does so in a light hearted fashion while creating some of the most memorable characters in the history of English theatre. It has always been a huge commercial success, in large part because both its humour and its themes are as timely today as they have ever been.