An Ideal Husband.
by WILDE, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A masterpiece of intrigue, political corruption, blackmail and hypocrisy but also one of forgiveness, tolerance and justice.
Wilde started writing An Ideal Husband while staying at Goring-on-Thames, which inspired him name one of the characters, Lord Goring. The finished play was initially rejected by the Garrick Theatre but soon taken up by the Haymarket Theatre, where it opened in January 1895 to a rapturous reception. George Bernard Shaw said of it: "Mr. Wilde is to me our only thorough Playwright. He plays with everything; with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theatre."
Mason 386.
Synopsis
From the book:The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher- that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASIL-DON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 112233
- Title
- An Ideal Husband.
- Author
- WILDE, Oscar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, L. Smithers & Co., 1899.
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