by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140287950
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«An Ideal Husband» is Oscar Wilde's theatrical comedy, published by Penguin Books in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Play premiered in 1895, set in Victorian London over twenty-four hours: a politician about to be appointed minister is blackmailed over the secrets of his past. Between political corruption, public honour and private life, Wilde combines social criticism and dialogues of mordant wit.
Published in July 1999, the cover of this edition reproduces the poster of the Miramax film adaptation.
For readers of classic theatre, Victorian comedy and social satire, with Oscar Wilde's characteristic wit.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
