AN Ideal Husband - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140287957 ISBN 13: 9780140287950

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1999

Synopsis

Sir Robert Chiltern, a politician on the verge of being appointed to the cabinet, is blackmailed by Mrs. Chevely about secrets from his past

About this title

About the Author:

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.

From AudioFile:

The L.A. Theatre Works performs plays tailored for a radio format before live audiences. The works are treats for the ear: Each features first-rate performances, rich but not overdone sound effects, evocative background music, expert engineering and the immediacy of an audience's live responses. AN IDEAL HUSBAND, Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy, shows how a good adaptation of a classic play can speak to the present age. Martin Jarvis and director Michael Hackett have slightly streamlined Wilde's play about a rising politician with a secret in his past whose efforts to prevent exposure call attention to the hypocrisy of holding our leaders to higher standards than we ourselves live by. The large cast handles the witty dialogue with delicacy: Jacqueline Bisset charmingly plays one of dramatic literature's most polite blackmailers. The insouciance of the performances emphasizes rather than detracts from the play's serious theme of social hypocrisy. G.H. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140287957
• ISBN 13: 9780140287950
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144