Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan
Alternative Title: (A Play About) a Good Woman
Author: Oscar Wilde
First Performance: 1892, London
Published: 1893
Genre: Drama in 4 acts
Setting: Lord Windermere's House and Lord Darlington's rooms, London, 1892
Cast: 7m, 9f
Lady Windermere is 21 today, and her seemingly devoted husband has given her a fan for her birthday. She reproaches Lord Darlington for courting her, but is dismayed to learn that her husband is known to be associating with a Mrs Erlynne, to whom he gives regular sums of money. Worse still, Windermere insists that Mrs Erlynne should attend the birthday party. Lady Windermere, humiliated by her presence, leaves the party to go to Darlington's rooms, leaving her husband a note. It is now revealed that Mrs Erlynne is Lady...
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