 Ransome argues that Wilde freed himself by abandoning the melodrama , the basic structure which underlies his earlier social comedies , and basing the story entirely on the Earnest / Ernest verbal conceit . Now freed from " living up to any drama more serious than conversation " Wilde could now amuse himself to a fuller extent with quips , bons @-@ mots , epigrams and repartee that really had little to do with the business at hand . 
 Ransome <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>argues</mark></a> that Wilde freed himself by abandoning the melodrama , the basic structure which <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>underlies</mark></a> his earlier social comedies , and basing the story entirely on the Earnest / Ernest verbal conceit . Now freed from " living up to any drama more serious than conversation " Wilde could now amuse himself to a fuller extent with quips , bons @-@ mots , epigrams and repartee <a href='null_relcl' title='3'><mark>that</mark></a>really had little to do with the business at hand . 
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