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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.
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. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman; she confronts him with it.
15 nov 2019 · Lady Windermere's fan ; Salome ; A woman of no importance ; An ideal husband ; The importance of being earnest. by. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Publication date. 1998. Publisher. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
Wilde wrote nine plays in all between 1879 and 1894. 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.
13 giu 2020 · Lady Windermere's fan can be thought of as a symbol of duplicity. People drop their fans or raise them when they are lying or cannot come up with a lie. Or else one can think of the fan as the apparatus one uses so as to make an appearance in public.
Abstract. Lady Windermere's Fan ends with the triumph of the dandyesque Mrs. Erlynne; A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde's second successful society drama, first performed only fourteen months later, ends with the joint triumph of an evangelical puritan and a reformed magdalen, while the dandyesque Lord Illingworth is discarded as ‘a man ...
A witty four act satire on the relationships and gender double-standards of the upper-class Victorian society.
