Lady Windermere's Fan (annotated) by Oscar Wilde (English) Paperback Book

Description: Lady Windermere's Fan (annotated) by Oscar Wilde Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Lady Windermeres Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St Jamess 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 but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wifes birthday ball. Angered by her husbands supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermeres mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughters marriage. The best-known line of the play sums up the central theme: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Lord Darlington By the summer of 1891 Wilde had already written three plays: Vera; or, The Nihilists and The Duchess of Padua had found little success, and Salome had been censored. Unperturbed, he decided to write another play but turned from tragedy to comedy.[2] He went to the Lake District in the north of England, where he stayed with a friend and later met Robert Ross. Numerous characters in the play appear to draw their names from the north of England: Lady Windermere from the lake and nearby town Windermere (though Wilde had used "Windermere" earlier in Lord Arthur Saviles Crime), the Duchess of Berwick from Berwick-upon-Tweed, Lord Darlington from Darlington.[3] Wilde began writing the play at the prodding of Sir George Alexander, the actor manager of St Jamess Theatre.[4] The play was finished by October.[5] Alexander liked the play, and offered him an advance of £1,000 for it. Wilde, impressed by his confidence, opted to take a percentage instead, from which he would earn £7,000 in the first year alone (worth £698,600 today). Alexander was a meticulous manager and he and Wilde began exhaustive revisions and rehearsals of the play. Both were talented artists with strong ideas about their art. Wilde, for instance, emphasised attention to aesthetic minutiae rather than realism; he resisted Alexanders suggested broad stage movements, quipping that "Details are of no importance in life, but in art details are vital".[8] These continued after the opening night, when at the suggestion of both friends and Alexander, Wilde made changes to reveal Mrs Erylnnes relationship with Lady Windermere gradually throughout the play, rather than reserving the secret for the final act.[9] Despite these artistic differences, both were professional and their collaboration was a fruitful one. There is an extant manuscript of the play held in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California in Los Angeles. Author Biography Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: "An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, " and "Lady Windermeres Fan." Among his best known stories are "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Canterville Ghost". Details ISBN 1517764777 ISBN-13 9781517764777 Title Lady Windermere's Fan (annotated) Author Oscar Wilde Format Paperback Year 2015 Pages 98 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform GE_Item_ID:99229659; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. 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