 Though Wilde deployed characters that were by now familiar — the dandy lord , the overbearing matriarch , the woman with a past , the puritan young lady — his treatment is subtler than in his earlier comedies . Lady Bracknell , for instance , embodies respectable , upper @-@ class society , but Eltis notes how her development " from the familiar overbearing duchess into a quirkier and more disturbing character " can be traced through Wilde 's revisions of the play . For the two young men , Wilde presents not stereotypical stage " dudes " but intelligent beings who , as Jackson puts it , " speak like their creator in well @-@ formed complete sentences and rarely use slang or vogue @-@ words " . Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism are characterised by a few light touches of detail , their old @-@ fashioned enthusiasms , and the Canon 's fastidious pedantry , pared down by Wilde during his many redrafts of the text . 
 Though Wilde deployed characters <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>that</mark></a><a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> by now familiar — the dandy lord , the overbearing matriarch , the woman with a past , the puritan young lady — his treatment <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>is</mark></a>subtler than in his earlier comedies . Lady Bracknell , for instance , embodies respectable , upper @-@ class society , but Eltis <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>notes</mark></a> how her development " from the familiar overbearing duchess into a quirkier and more disturbing character " can be traced through Wilde <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>revisions of the play . For the two young men , Wilde <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>presents</mark></a> not stereotypical stage " dudes " but intelligent beings <a href='null_relcl' title='7'><mark>who</mark></a>, as Jackson <a href='uninflect' title='8'><mark>puts</mark></a> it , " speak like their creator in well @-@ formed complete sentences and rarely use slang or vogue @-@ words " . Dr Chasuble and Miss Prism are characterised by a few light touches of detail , their old @-@ fashioned enthusiasms , and the Canon <a href='null_genetive' title='9'><mark>'s</mark></a>fastidious pedantry , pared down by Wilde during his many redrafts of the text . 
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