If you like good fun, wit and intelligence and haven't read this play or seen it performed, go read it NOW. I heard a Wilde scholar say that this is pretty much a play about nothing. Would it be possible that Wilde defined with this play a genre followed much later by Jerry Seinfeld in his sitcom ? If so, the quality went way down with time because the first in the genre was a masterpiece.
As a show about nothing should be, this has a lot of cynicism, social satire and a bit of farce. It would perhaps help to read an annotated version (reading the side notes only after finishing the whole thing, of course) - there are some details that would perhaps require a bit of help to be placed in the right context, but not many.
I advise you to be careful when reading this in public places. If you're the sort of bloke who would be embarassed when strangers look at you in amusement, beware that you will laugh out loud and so may draw at least some attention.
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