 Wilde continually revised the text over the next months : no line was left untouched , and " in a play so economical with its language and effects , [ the revisions ] had serious consequences " . Sos Eltis describes Wilde 's revisions as a refined art at work : the earliest , longest handwritten drafts of the play labour over farcical incidents , broad puns , nonsense dialogue and conventional comic turns . In revising as he did , " Wilde transformed standard nonsense into the more systemic and disconcerting illogicality which characterises Earnest 's dialogue " . Richard Ellmann argues that Wilde had reached his artistic maturity and wrote this work more surely and rapidly than before . 
 Wilde continually revised the text over the next months : no line was left untouched , and " in a play so economical with its language and effects , [ the revisions ] had serious consequences " . Sos Eltis <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>describes</mark></a> Wilde <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>revisions as a refined art at work : the earliest , longest handwritten drafts of the play labour over farcical incidents , broad puns , nonsense dialogue and conventional comic turns . In revising as he did , " Wilde transformed standard nonsense into the more systemic and disconcerting illogicality which <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>characterises</mark></a> Earnest <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>dialogue " . Richard Ellmann <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>argues</mark></a> that Wilde <a href='been_done' title='6'><mark>had</mark></a> reached his artistic maturity and wrote this work more surely and rapidly than before . 
Wilde continually revised the text over the next months : no line was left untouched , and " in a play so economical w its language and effects , [ the revisions ] had serious consequences " . Sos Eltis describe Wilde  revisions as a refined art at work : da earliest , longest handwritten drafts of the play labour ova farcical incidents , broad puns , b.s dialogue and conventional comic turns . In revising as he did , " Wilde transformed standard nonsense into tdamore systemic and disconcerting illogicality which characterise Earnest  dialogue " . Richard Ellmann argue dat Wilde done reached his artistic maturity and wrote this wrk more surely and rapidly than before .