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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.
It is based on Oscar Wilde's 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan which was first played in America by Julia Arthur as Lady Windermere and Maurice Barrymore as Lord Darlington. [2] [3] The film is being preserved by several archives. [4] It was transferred onto 16mm film by Associated Artists Productions [5] in the 1950s and shown on television.
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "Two Loves" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality. [1]
The first more or less objective biography of Wilde came about when Hesketh Pearson wrote Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit (1946). [251] In 1954 Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment. [252] It was revised and updated by Merlin ...
A Good Woman is a 2004 romantic comedy drama [2] film directed by Mike Barker. The screenplay by Howard Himelstein is based on the 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde . It is the fourth screen version of the work, following a 1916 silent film using Wilde's original title, Ernst Lubitsch 's 1925 version , and Otto Preminger 's 1949 ...
Each episode of “Scenes From a Marriage” opens with a bit of frank reality. The five installments of HBO’s new limited series begin showing one of the show’s stars, Jessica Chastain or ...
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. [1] Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.
Olivia Wilde’s Dating History Through the Years Read article Wilde, 38, took to social media on Tuesday, January 10, to share a scene from Tropical Malady in her Instagram Stories, which read ...