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Full cast Oscar Wilde play....*Theatre Format*/ 4 act British- upper society play....all in one day. ........Audiobook.... ....1 hour and 37 minutes Magnificent performances....[this play was enhanced with the audiobook format] - great voices, and characters. Rights & wrongs.....code of conduct....deceitfulness..... hypocrisy....and revenge are themes on full display...... ......between husbands, wives, mothers, and daughters.Mrs. Erlynne hopes to win over a married aristocrat, Mr. Windermere...
WOW. Oscar Wilde is a genius! This was so realistic, there was so much wisdom pouring out of it. It was entertaining and short, straight forward, full of cherished quotes. Loved it! β₯
I think these classic plays are better enjoyed on stage than by reading. That seems so obvious that it seems silly to say. But the problem for most of us is, we haven't seen them on stage and probably won't. There is enough going on in this play though to make it a fun read. I use the word fun rather loosely because, even though it is a comedy, it doesn't seem like one to me. Maybe that is one of the things lost in reading versus watching, I don't know. I think it's a subtle style of humor that
The Charming TripTruths , Dares and Lies...Saviour Silences and Devastating Truths!Ssssssshhhhhhh... --- DON'T SAY IT!..."It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. I take the side of the charming..."Forget about Goodness!Forget about Badness!Take the Charming Boat!All Aboard?!... ππππππ
Video ReviewI grew up with a girl who wrote love letters to a prisoner during our teens, and during this period she told me on rough days that "We're all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars". We drew a lot of optimism and strength from that quote. It stopped her dropping out of school, it stopped me dropping out of friendships. We knew Oscar Wilde wrote it, but we weren't sure where it came from. I read The Picture of Dorian Gray like most teens, but I didn't find it in there.
Wilde's wit never bores me, which is why he is one of my favorite authors. Below are a few quotations I particularly liked from Lady Windermere's fan:"... scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.""In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.""What is a cynic?...A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.""That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they
An enjoyable play that I liked more than The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband. Many Goodread members classify Lady Windermere's Fan as a comedy and although there are definitely some witty parts, you know the Oscar Wilde wit, but I found the play to be more of a drama. Slightly disappointed that I figured out who Mrs. Erlynne was before I got to the end and what part she really played. Four stars.
Lady Windermere's Fan is classified as a Comedy of Manners, and while there are certainly humorous elements present in the usual clever Wilde manner, I would contend that there is more of drama here than comedy. The story at the base of this play is quite serious. The subject of the ease with which a person (particularly a woman) could be ruined and expelled from society (something that Wilde, even as a man, knew something of) is a serious topic for Wilde. The instinctive love of a mother is a s...
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Lady Windermere's Fan ~~ Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan is quite clever, quite witty, but at it's heart is a comedy in the vein of The Importance of Being Ernest. And while all is resolved in a neat package by the end of Act IV, it is not as satisfying most of Wilde's work. Lady Windermere's Fan is a social comedy, as is most of Wilde's work. It looks at the social norms, expectations and mannerisms of the time. And while it use...
Oscar Wilde is my favorite author of all time, and this play in four acts is as delightful as I expected. The dialogues are brilliant, the humor, satire and wit are through the roof, and itβs a quick and charming read. I canβt wait to be able to travel again so that I can buy Wildeβs plays in a nice edition. It is short, but packed with nuances and insight. It put a huge smile on my face, for hours.
This is a brilliant play written by Oscar Wild. From the first dialogue, I knew I'm in for a treat. And yes indeed I was. There was so much in this play - humour, satire, witty dialogues, drama, excitement, sensitivity and a heartwarming story full of wisdom. All of these features were clustered into a Four-Act play. If this is not brilliance, what is? Writing a short work is quite challenging. One has to balance the elements very carefully. And it is by no means an easy task. But Oscar Wild has...
"There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice."
This is not my favorite Oscar Wilde play, but it doesn't have to be. Everything Oscar Wilde writes is brilliant and this play is no exception. Wilde's works range from serious to comedic and this one has elements of both. Wilde is concerned in this play about the British obsession with keeping up appearances, with the expectations of one's social class, and the hypocrisy of double standards. He uses his characters brilliantly to examine these themes. This play had me rapt with attention from be...
Well, it seems that my liking of Wilde's works follows a graphic like this one:I am not kidding you. Every time I read another play, I think it's better than the one I read before. Perhaps I'm reading them in some particular order unknown to me, or my opinion is starting to get biased. In any case, I enjoyed this immensely.This one involves more drama and problems than the plays I read previous to this one. It has a jealous wife, there's blackmailing, there are some misunderstood things that lea...
Reading an Oscar Wilde play is sort of like life being perfect. The structure of the work is faultless, the dialogue is uber-clever and fantastic. What's wrong with Wilde? Nothing. He's perfect. I can't imagine any writer who wrote so beautifully in his native language. There are some people who are born with 'it' and Wilde is one of them. Of course for someone so perfect he would have to get involved in some nasty social business via his decade. But when you look back at Wilde, one realizes tha...
Beyond the appreciation level, my meager vocabulary could ever achieve!
This is my favourite Oscar Wilde play. I loved this play even before I read it. The fantastic film adaptation, The Good Woman, has been one of my favourite movies. After reading the play, I can appreciate how perfect the casting is even more. Helen Hunt as Mrs. Erlynne, Scarlett Johansson as Lady Windermere and Tom Wilkinson as Tuppy are made for these roles. "I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of th...
So much drama, so much fun. :)
A combination of drama and humoras usual, Wilde criticizes appearances and social hypocrisy of the aristocratic society and the different view of actions of men and womenand the most important point about the harsh judgments of people over others while it's so normal for the human nature to fluctuates between right and wrongthis play was published at 1893
\Wilde's work hinges on paradoxical epigrams that are both sinister in their implications and deconstructionist in their content, we are disturbed by that the character who voices the epigrams doesn't seem to have an moral core of their being and see the absurdity of, for example, the distinction between Nature and Civilization. Derrida, but satirical.