Five f Oscar Wildes witties and best-known plays, including Lady Windermeres Fan , his first great stage success, and Lord Alfred Douglass translation of Salomé , which Wilde originally wrote in French. Of The Importance of Being Ernest , his most famous play, Wilde wrote: It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy . . . that we shoul Five f Oscar Wildes witties and best-known plays, including Lady Windermeres Fan , his first great stage success, and Lord Alfred Douglass translation of Salomé , which Wilde originally wrote in French. Of The Importance of Being Ernest , his most famous play, Wilde wrote: It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy . . . that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.