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Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. [1] The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it.
Wilde's first West End drawing room play, Lady Windermere's Fan, ran at the St James's Theatre for 197 performances in 1892. He briefly moved away from the genre to write his biblical tragedy Salome , after which he accepted a request from the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree for a new play for Tree's company at the Haymarket ...
His fame as a dramatist rests on four comedies – Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest –, and the tragedy Salomé. His plays continue to dazzle audiences even a century after his death. All his plays are freely available on this site: A Florentine Tragedy »
Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest : Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
25 de ene. de 1997 · Lady Windermere . Don’t say that, Arthur. There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one’s eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
Their shared name’s presence on the fan suggests that while the real person underneath still matters, the kind of gender-based artifice that the fan provides is nonetheless crucial for women’s survival in society. Compare and contrast themes from other texts to this theme….
In Lady Windermere’s Fan, this contamination becomes quite apparent. Lord Windermere, for instance, states that Lady Windermere and her mother belong ‘to different worlds’ (Wilde 66), clarifying that his definition of femininity is that of his wife, a good woman.
