An Ideal Husband E-Book

Oscar Wilde

• Herausgeber: Oscar Wilde
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

mrs. marchmont. Going on to the Hartlocks’ tonight, Margaret? lady basildon. I suppose so. Are you? mrs. marchmont. Yes. Horribly tedious parties they give, don’t they? lady basildon. Horribly tedious! Never know why I go. Never know why I go anywhere. mrs. marchmont. I come here to be educated. lady basildon. Ah! I hate being educated! mrs. marchmont. So do I. It puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes, doesn’t it? But dear Gertrude Chiltern is always telling me that I should have some serious purpose in life. So I come here to try to find one. lady basildon. [Looking round through her lorgnette.] I don’t see anybody here tonight whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. The man who took me in to dinner talked to me about his wife the whole time. mrs. marchmont. How very trivial of him! lady basildon. Terribly trivial! What did your man talk about? mrs. marchmont. About myself. lady basildon. [Languidly.] And were you interested? mrs. marchmont. [Shaking her head.] Not in the smallest degree. lady basildon. What martyrs we are, dear Margaret! mrs. marchmont. [Rising.] And how well it becomes us, Olivia!

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Table of contents

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY

FIRST ACT

SECOND ACT

THIRD ACT

FOURTH ACT

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, K.G.VISCOUNT GORING, his SonSIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign AffairsVICOMTE DE NANJAC, Attaché at the French Embassy in LondonMR. MONTFORDMASON, Butler to Sir Robert ChilternPHIPPS, Lord Goring’s ServantJAMES   }HAROLD  } FootmenLADY CHILTERNLADY MARKBYTHE COUNTESS OF BASILDONMRS. MARCHMONTMISS MABEL CHILTERN, Sir Robert Chiltern’s SisterMRS. CHEVELEY

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY

Act I.  The Octagon Room in Sir Robert Chiltern’s House in Grosvenor Square.Act II.  Morning-room in Sir Robert Chiltern’s House.Act III.  The Library of Lord Goring’s House in Curzon Street.Act IV.  Same as Act II.Time: The PresentPlace: London.The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours.

FIRST ACT

SCENEThe octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern’s house in Grosvenor Square.[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests.  At the top of the staircase stands lady chiltern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age.  She receives the guests as they come up.  Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry—representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher—that is stretched on the staircase wall.  On the right is the entrance to the music-room.  The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard