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Heartstopper · Season 2, Episode 2, "Family"

Isaac's Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Isaac Henderson (Tobie Donovan)

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Episode two, and Isaac has moved on to a collection of Oscar Wilde's plays. Heartstopper puts Wilde in the hands of a teenager trying to figure out who he is, which is a tidy bit of casting.

Sources: All the books Isaac reads in Heartstopper, season two, Meeghan reads · Every book that Isaac reads in Heartstopper, Kobo · All of the books Isaac reads in Heartstopper season two, PinkNews · A Complete Heartstopper Book List, The Geeky Waffle
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde · 1895 · plays

Earnest opened in London in February 1895 and was a hit. By May, Wilde had been convicted of gross indecency and sent to prison, and the play closed early. A comedy about a man living a double life, written by a man the law forced to live one.

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