An Ideal Husband - Noyemi

By Oscar Wilde

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY


THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, K.G.
VISCOUNT GORING, his Son
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
VICOMTE DE NANJAC, Attache at the French Embassy in London
MR. MONTFORD
MASON, Butler to Sir Robert Chiltern
PHIPPS, Lord Goring's Servant
JAMES   }
HAROLD  } Footmen
LADY CHILTERN
LADY MARKBY
THE COUNTESS OF BASILDON
MRS. MARCHMONT
MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Sir Robert Chiltern's Sister
MRS. CHEVELEY


THE SCENES OF THE PLAY


ACT I.  The Octagon Room in Sir Robert Chiltern's House in Grosvenor
Square.
ACT II.  Morning-room in Sir Robert Chiltern's House.
ACT III.  The Library of Lord Goring's House in Curzon Street.
ACT IV.  Same as Act II.

TIME: The Present
PLACE: London.

The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours.


THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET


Sole Lessee: Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Managers: Mr. Lewis Waller and Mr. H. H. Morell
January 3rd, 1895

THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, Mr. Alfred Bishop.
VISCOUNT GORING, Mr. Charles H. Hawtrey.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Mr. Lewis Waller.
VICOMTE DE NANJAC, Mr. Cosmo Stuart.
MR. MONTFORD, Mr. Harry Stanford.
PHIPPS, Mr. C. H. Brookfield.
MASON, Mr. H. Deane.
JAMES, Mr. Charles Meyrick.
HAROLD, Mr. Goodhart.
LADY CHILTERN, Miss Julia Neilson.
LADY MARKBY, Miss Fanny Brough.
COUNTESS OF BASILDON, Miss Vane Featherston.
MRS. MARCHMONT, Miss Helen Forsyth.
MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Miss Maud Millet.
MRS. CHEVELEY, Miss Florence West.



FIRST ACT



SCENE

The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square.

[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests.  At the top of
the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty,
about twenty-seven years of age.  She receives the guests as they
come up.  Over the well of the sta
ircase hangs a great chandelier
with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French
tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher
- that is stretched on the staircase wall.  On the right is the
entrance to the music-room.  The sound of a string quartette is
faintly heard.  The entrance on the left leads to other reception-
rooms.  MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASILDON, two very pretty women, are
seated together on a Louis Seize sofa.  They are types of exquisite
fragility.  Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm.
Watteau would have loved to paint them.]

MRS. MARCHMONT.  Going on to the Hartlocks' to-night, Margaret?

LADY BASILDON.  I suppose so.  Are you?

MRS. MARCHMONT.  Yes.  Horribly tedious parties they give, don't
they?

LADY BASILDON.  Horribly tedious!  Never know why I go.  Never know
why I go anywhere.

MRS. MARCHMONT.  I come here to be educated

LADY BASILDON.  Ah!  I hate being educated!

MRS. MARCHMONT.  So do I.  It puts one almost on a level with the
commercial classes, doesn't it?  But dear Gertrude Chiltern is always
telling me that I should have some serious purpose in life.  So I

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