by Oscar Wilde · A & C Black Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713637892
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«An Ideal Husband» is Oscar Wilde's play, published by A & C Black Publishers Ltd in paperback (208 pages, in English).
In Victorian England, the career of a respected politician falters when a secret from his past comes to light. His wife and those around him must choose between the ideal and reality; Wilde wittily ridicules the hypocrisy of the ruling class.
Second edition in the New Mermaids series, edited by Russell Jackson and published in 1993, with an introduction placing the play in its historical, social and theatrical context.
Useful for students of English literature and readers of Victorian theatre seeking an edition with introduction and historical context.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
