Abstract/Sommario: This play is set in the dazzling social world of 1890's London. It is the world of the aristocrat and the dandy - and it also the world of shabby political and financial intrigue. Sir Roberth Chiltern is a man who seems to have everything - money, power, an important position, and a wife who idealises him. Sir Robert finds his world threatened with collapse by the arrival of the sinister Mrs Cheveley in London. Mrs Cheveley knows that SIr Robert has a shameful secret in his past and sh ...; [Leggi tutto...]
This play is set in the dazzling social world of 1890's London. It is the world of the aristocrat and the dandy - and it also the world of shabby political and financial intrigue. Sir Roberth Chiltern is a man who seems to have everything - money, power, an important position, and a wife who idealises him. Sir Robert finds his world threatened with collapse by the arrival of the sinister Mrs Cheveley in London. Mrs Cheveley knows that SIr Robert has a shameful secret in his past and she will destroy him if he doesn't do what she wants. Oscar Wilde's play combines farce, verbal wit and satire in this gripping comedy. The play also contains an argument about the nature of love, and the need for women to forgive rather than idealise their husbands.
