Compilation/Packaged Set: The Oscar Wilde BBC Collection
Barcode 5014138301422
Release Date 2005
Purchase Date 3/19/2020
Store Amazon
Condition New
Relate Movie Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan
Comedy, Satire
In Collection
#2106
8*
Seen It:  Yes
(4/1/2020 Home)
5014138301637
IMDB   8.1
USA / English
DVD 

Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house... Written by Guy Bellinger
Edition Details
Edition BBC
Release Date 1969
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 3/19/2020
Location Personal Library - Oscar Wilde BBC Collection
Links An introduction to Lady Windermere's Fan: Andrew Dickson explores some of complexities of Oscar Wilde’s first hit play, Lady Windermere’s Fan.

Notes
Of the four offerings in this compilation-The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere's Fan -I found this to be the most interesting. Not only was it a biting social satire, but it raises the question of to what extent society should judge a person's past in evaluating their present. While set in the mores of the late 19th century "upper" class Victorian England, this perspective is more universal.

An introduction to Lady Windermere's Fan: Andrew Dickson explores some of complexities of Oscar Wilde's first hit play, Lady Windermere's Fan.