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An Ideal Husband

Autor Oscar Wilde
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 sep 2007
This 1895 play revolves around blackmail and political corruption. The theme of public and private honor runs throughout the work. The play opens at a fashionable dinner party in London. Several guests are involved in a plot to build a canal through Argentina. Blackmail, past love interests, and deceit are rampant. Surprisingly there just may be a happy ending after all.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781604242515
ISBN-10: 1604242515
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: BOOK JUNGLE
Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London. He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

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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.