An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband explores corruption and morality, bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. Ambitious government minister Sir Robert Chiltern seems assured of a smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his past financial chicanery. An Ideal Husband was first staged at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in 1895. This edition of An Ideal Husband in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited and introduced by Laurie Wolf.

'Oscar Wilde's ability to satirise the hollowness of our social and political life remains remarkably undimmed'

* Daily Express *

'Hugely entertaining, a curious mixture of melodrama, Wilde's distinctive epigrammatic wit and sudden moments of deeper feelings'

* Daily Telegraph *
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. His plays include The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance.
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ISBN 13 9781854594600
ISBN 10 1854594605
Title An Ideal Husband
Author Oscar Wilde
Series Drama Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Year published 1999-12-17
Number of pages 106
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.