Download or read book An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1912 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde was first performed as a stage play in 1895. Set in London, and taking place over a period of twenty-four hours, characters such as The Earl of Caversham, Lord Goring, and Miss Mabel Chiltern converse about subjects that revolve around blackmail, political corruption, and honour.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir and Lady Chiltern are the picture of responsibility: he a member of the House of Commons, she a member of the Women’s Liberal Association. When Mrs. Cheveley arrives in London, she brings with her a letter that threatens to ruin Sir Chiltern forever—his whole life threatens to come crumbling down. The following twenty-four hours are filled with theft, blackmail, farce, and biting social commentary. An Ideal Husband was first performed in 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, and it was immediately successful. On April 6th, the same day it transferred to the Criterion Theatre, Oscar Wilde was arrested for gross indecency, and his name was removed from the play. Wilde revised the play for publication in 1899, taking steps to add written stage directions and character descriptions in order to make the work more accessible to the public. Today it’s Wilde’s second most popular play, after The Importance of Being Earnest.
Download or read book Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by NHB Classic Plays. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All four of Wilde's famous plays in one bargain-priced volume.
Download or read book An IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilde treats marriage as a complicated and imperfect relationship in his play, and mocks the Chilterns' try to create the suitable marriage primarily based on social repute. Lady Chiltern continuously states that her husband cannot come up with the money for to help the Argentine Canal scheme because he represents the first-rate of English lifestyles. Both Lady Basildon and Mrs. Marchmont complain approximately their marriage because they are too perfect, and are consequently uninteresting. In any marriage, issues arise, however in the nice marriages, love stays steady. Lord Goring is the play's champion of love, and his courting with Mabel permits for imperfections in place of focusing on ideals. Mrs. Cheveley tries to make Lord Goring marry her, however she represents evil and self-interest, and as Lord Goring notes, desecrates the phrase of affection. Thus, he does not even consider accepting her proposal, and maintains real to himself and his love. The survival of marriage and the inspiration of entering into married union is front and middle during the plot, and highlights the characters' imperfections.
Download or read book The Enormous Room written by Edward Estlin Cummings and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2022-08-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important and popular American poets of the 20th century, e. e. cummings is best known for his brilliant and innovative verse and its distinctive lack of uppercase letters and conventional grammar. He was also a Cubist painter and a World War I veteran. At the age of 23, he abandoned his artistic pursuits for voluntary service as an ambulance driver in France. His military career culminated in a comedy of errors leading to his arrest and imprisonment for treason, as he memorably recounts in The Enormous Room. Cummings transforms a tale of unjust incarceration into a high-energy romp and a celebration of the indomitable human spirit that ranks with the best of its contemporaries, including the works of Hemingway and Dos Passos.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 BASILDON, 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.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband by written by Oscar Wilde and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present," and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play.In the summer of 1893, Oscar Wilde began writing An Ideal Husband, and he completed it later that winter. His work began at Goring-on-Thames, after which he named the character Lord Goring, and concluded at St. James Place. He initially sent the completed play to the Garrick Theatre, where the manager rejected it, but it was soon accepted by the Haymarket Theatre, where Lewis Waller had temporarily taken control. Waller was an excellent actor and cast himself as Sir Robert Chiltern. The play gave the Haymarket the success it desperately needed. After opening on 3 January 1895, it continued for 124 performances. In April of that year, Wilde was arrested for "gross indecency" and his name was publicly taken off the play. On 6 April, soon after Wilde's arrest, the play moved to the Criterion Theatre where it ran from 13-27 April. The play was published in 1899, although Wilde was not listed as the author. This published version differs slightly from the performed play, for Wilde added many passages and cut others. Prominent additions included written stage directions and character descriptions. Wilde was a leader in the effort to make plays accessible to the reading public.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde s An Ideal Husband written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours.
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Download or read book An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Annotated Classic Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''An Ideal Husband'' is a play written by Oscar Wilde, a comedy that takes place over a short period of time and involves blackmail and corruption. "An Ideal Husband" tells the story of Sir Robert Chiltern, a well-liked politician who is considered a bastion of morality by everyone he knows, especially his wife. However, an acquaintance of the Chilterns, Mrs Cheveley, uncovers a secret from Sir Robert's past that could ruin both his reputation and his wife's good opinion if were to become common knowledge. Sir Robert finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place as Mrs Cheveley attempts to blackmail him into supporting a fraudulent scheme that would leave his good name equally tarnished, and is forced to turn to his friend, the dandyish aesthete Lord Goring, to help him find a way out of this conundrum... Oscar Wilde was one of the most fascinating authors of the 19th century, known as much for his witticisms as for his writing. His most notable works include the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and the comic plays "An Ideal Husband" and "Lady Windermere's Fan". All his works reflect Wilde ́s promotion of Aestheticism.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square.[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADYCHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives theguests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with waxlights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry-representing the Triumphof Love, from a design by Boucher-that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is theentrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance onthe left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASILDON, two very prettywomen, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Theiraffectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.]MRS. MARCHMONT. Going on to the Hartlocks' to-night, Margaret?LADY BASILDON. I suppose so. Are you?MRS. MARCHMONT. Yes. Horribly tedious parties they give, don't they?LADY BASILDON. Horribly tedious! Never know why I go. Never know why I go anywhere.MRS. MARCHMONT. I come here to be educated.LADY BASILDON. Ah! I hate being educated!MRS. MARCHMONT. So do I. It puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes, doesn'tit? But dear Gertrude Chiltern is always telling me that I should have some serious purposein life. So I come here to try to find one.LADY BASILDON. [Looking round through her lorgnette.] I don't see anybody here to-nightwhom one could possibly call a serious purpose. The man who took me in to dinner talkedto me about his wife the whole time.MRS. MARCHMONT. How very trivial of him!LADY BASILDON. Terribly trivial! What did your man talk about?MRS. MARCHMONT. About myself.LADY BASILDON. [Languidly.] And were you interested?MRS. MARCHMONT. [Shaking her head.] Not in the smallest degree.4LADY BASILDON. What martyrs we are, dear Margaret!MRS. MARCHMONT. [Rising.] And how well it becomes us, Olivia![They rise and go towards the music-room. The VICOMTE DE NANJAC, a young attaché known forhis neckties and his Anglomania, approaches with a low bow, and enters into conversation.]MASON. [Announcing guests from the top of the staircase.] Mr. and Lady Jane Barford. LordCaversham.
Download or read book An Ideal Husband by Oscar Original Annotated Edition written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours.
Download or read book Oscar Wilde an Ideal Husband written by Oscar Wilde and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Ideal Husband" is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty four hours. Oscar Wilde began writing "An Ideal Husband" in 1893, and completed it later that winter. At this point in his career he was accustomed to success, and in writing "An Ideal Husband" he wanted to ensure himself public fame. His work began at Goring-on-Thames, after which he named the character Lord Goring, and concluded at St. James Place. Oscar Wilde initially sent the completed script for "An Ideal Husband" to the Garrick Theatre, where the manager rejected it, but it was soon accepted by the Haymarket Theatre, where Lewis Waller had temporarily taken control. Waller was an excellent actor and cast himself as Sir Robert Chiltern. The play gave the Haymarket the success it desperately needed. After opening on January 3, 1895, "An Ideal Husband" continued for 124 performances.
Download or read book The Fall of the House of Wilde written by Emer O'Sullivan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story. It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed these characteristics to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocating a rebellion against colonialism in 1848. Proud, involved, and challenging, she opened a salon and was known as the most scintillating hostess of her day. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who drank it in greedily. His father, Sir William Wilde, was acutely conscious of injustices of the social order. He laid the foundations for the Celtic cultural renaissance in the belief that culture would establish a common ground between the privileged and the poor, Protestant and Catholic. But Sir William was also a philanderer, and when he stood accused of sexually assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent shockwaves through Dublin society. After his death, the Wildes decamped to London where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene. The one role that didn't suit him was that of Victorian husband, as his wife, Constance, was to discover. For beneath his swelling head was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was unable to recognize when the party was over. Ultimately, his trial for indecency heralded the death of decadence--and his own. In a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Irish American families of Victorian times, and places him in the broader social, political, and religious context. It is a fresh and perceptive account of one of the most prominent characters of the late nineteenth century.
