![]() ![]() Cheveley, who has invested heavily in the canal project, insists that he must withdraw the report and lend his support to the project or else she will make public an incriminating letter. Sir Robert is about to deliver the report of his special investigative commission to the House of Commons about the Argentine project Mrs. Now Parliament is debating the building of a canal across Argentina. Years before, we learn, Sir Robert disclosed a government secret about the Suez Canal in order to make a financial profit and gain access to power. Cheveley, an old social friend, tries to blackmail Sir Robert, and the plot is afoot. The action begins at a dinner party hosted by Sir Robert Chiltern, a member of Parliament and one of the leaders of the prime minister’s coalition. ![]() The play examines the lives of London’s 1890s elite and the intersection between their personal and public lives. An Ideal Husband contains that element and also adds a story about political corruption, insider trading and blackmail. Wilde’s witty comedies, Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan and A Woman of No Importance, satirized the behavior of Victorian society. ![]() It is an eloquent plea for individual expression in the face of Victorian conformity. But An Ideal Husband is a more ambitious and, I would argue, a more interesting play. Some critics say that this isn’t as good a play as Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.Ĭlearly, it hasn’t been produced as often. ![]()
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