Oscar Wilde’s first major success on the stage, Lady Windermere’s Fan premiered in London in 1892 to sold-out fashionable crowds. The social comedy centers on a woman who has been cast out of and hopes to re-enter society but ultimately sacrifices herself to save her grown daughter’s dignity and social standing. Filled with some of Wilde’s best-known and wittiest epigrammatic sayings, the play’s exposure of upper-class hypocrisy is far deeper and more poignant than such funny wr...
Table des matières
Contents
The Persons of the Play
The Scenes of the Play
London: St. James’s Theatre
First Act
Second Act
Third Act
Fourth Act
Afterword by Ulric...
A propos de l’auteur
Ulrich Baer holds degrees from Harvard and Yale, has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Humboldt fellowships, and is University Professor at New York Universit...