Lady Windermere's FanOscar WildeShort description'Lady Windermere's Fan' is the story of Lady Windermere who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to her birthday ball. Angered by her husband's unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. She sacrifices herself and her reputation in order to save Lady Windermere's marriage as Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere’s mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Author BioOscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891), and on his comic masterpieces 'Lady Windermere’s Fan' (1892) and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895). He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake. |
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