A A A Handbag?

We just read The Importance of Being Earnest in English class, a play which I quite enjoyed, albeit not as much as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The play makes fun of the upper classes of Victorian England, an idea with which I identify having spent so much time making fun of the upper classes of education. In fact, among my favorite lines is, "The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes" (Wilde I-don't-have-the-page-number). Oscar Wilde (see also: Oscar Wilde) has a wonderful sense of humor. Today we had planned to have a tea party in honor of the play (although I don't think we had any cucumber sandwiches, as Algernon had eaten all of the ones we made, despite Lane having gone to check twice). I brought lemonade, which as we all know is essential to any and all tea parties. Before we got started, Mrs. Fuelling announced that she had a song to play for us first. You see, one of the characters in the play, Jack, does not know who his parents are. He was found in a handbag in a closet at a railway station as an infant, and that's all he knows about his heritage. This presents a problem when he needs Lady Bracknell's approval to ask his love to marry him, as "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness" (Lady Bracknell). Take a look at the video Mrs. Fuelling played for us: