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An Ideal Husband de Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

Autor Oscar Wilde
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2008
An Ideal Husband, by Wilde, Oscar - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - An Ideal Husband is Wilde, Oscar's comedy of enemies, friends, and the secrets that catch up to us sooner or later. Sir Robert Chiltern is a wealthy, respected Member of Parliament, and host of a Grosvenor Square dinner party. Unfortunately, dinner guest Mrs. Chevely knows how he got his money, and she doesn't like the Chilterns. Can Sir Robert survive a blackmail attempt with his career and marriage intact? First produced in 1895, An Ideal Husband is both a Victorian comedy of manners and a timeless poke at human frailty. A play that exemplifies why Wilde is considered one of the best writers of dialogue in the English language.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781605121987
ISBN-10: 1605121983
Pagini: 132
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Akasha Classics
Locul publicării:United States

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One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with issues of vital importance to its late-Victorian audience, which continue to resonate today.

Sos Eltis, a specialist in Victorian drama and its relation to women's issues, provides a stimulating new perspective on An Ideal Husband, through an introduction that looks at its relation with contemporary social purity campaigns, women's rights, and political scandals. The introduction also gives a substantial performance history, with particular reference to the play's film versions and the influential Peter Hall theatre production.

Notă biografică

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, also known as Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet and playwright who lived from 16 October 1854 to 30 November 1900. He wrote in a variety of genres throughout the 1880s before becoming one of London's most well-known playwrights in the early 1890s. The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays and epigrams, as well as the circumstances surrounding his meningitis-related early death at age 46 and criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual activities in "one of the earliest celebrity trials," is what people will remember him for most. Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin, Wilde's parents were. French and German were picked up by young Wilde with ease. While in college, Wilde read the Greats and distinguished himself as an outstanding student of classical literature, first at Trinity College Dublin and then at Oxford. He became involved with the aestheticism movement, which was being spearheaded by two of his professors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Wilde moved to London after finishing college and became a part of rich social and cultural circles. Queensberry intended to publicly humiliate Wilde by tossing a bouquet of decaying vegetables onto the stage, but Wilde was informed and had Queensberry turned away from the theater.