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An Ideal Husband is a 1999 British film based on the 1895 play An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. The film stars Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore and Jeremy Northam. It was directed by Oliver Parker . It was selected as the 1999 Cannes Film Festival 's closing film. [3]
Plot Summary. “An Ideal Husband” is a comedic play by Oscar Wilde. It was first performed in London in 1895. In the play, a man must stop his wife from finding out that he’s built his entire career on selling out political secrets. The play exposes the problems with high society and deals with complex moral themes in a comic way.
As the title might suggest, An Ideal Husband 's primary theme is marriage, a common premise for the potboiler melodramas of Wilde's day. To recall our discussion of the play's Context, the Victorian popular theater provided stock storylines of domestic life that, after various crises, would culminate in the reaffirmation of familiar themes ...
Apr 1, 1997 · An Ideal Husband Credits: David Price Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Comedies Subject: London (England) -- Drama
An Ideal Husband was brought out last night with a similar degree of success to that which has attended Mr. Wilde's previous productions. It is a similar degree of success due to similar causes. For An Ideal Husband is marked by the same characteristics as Lady Windermere's Fan and A Woman of No Importance. There is a group of well-dressed ...
Summary. An Ideal Husband is at times a difficult play to summarize as much of its "plot" happens through rapid-fire, epigrammatic dialogue. Indeed, the pace and subtlety of these turns-of-phrase are what make plot so easy to miss. When summarizing the story, one finds oneself paraphrasing the repartee (repartee is defined as a smart, ready ...
The action of An Ideal Husband takes place within about twenty four hours. Act 1 takes place at Sir Robert Chiltern’s house, which is located in the fashionable part of London. The Chilterns are ...
