An Ideal Husband | Critical Essay on An Ideal Husband
Dell’Amico is an instructor of English literature and composition. In this essay, Dell’Amico considers Wilde and his play within the context of Irish-British colonial relations.
The country in which Oscar Wilde was born was, for many centuries, a territory of the United Kingdom (Britain). Ireland was, then, a colony of Britain, a situation of enforced dependence that most Irish deeply resented. Uprisings against British rule were common until, finally, Home Rule was established in 1921. After this date, most major Irish- British skirmishes pertained to the contested territory of Northern Ireland, a portion of the Irish island that Britain retained owing to Northern Ireland’s large number of ethnic and religious Britons. (Northern Ireland is still British land...
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