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Plays of Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wilde, Oscar

Wilde, Oscar
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Act I

Summary:

The scene is set in Lord Windermere's luxurious London house. It is late
afternoon. This evening, Lord and Lady Windermere will be giving a ball in
honor of Lady Windermere's twenty-first birthday.

We see Lady Windermere in the morningroom, gracefully arranging roses in
a bowl. Her butler (no household on a Wilde play is without one) enters to
announce that Lord Darlington has come to call on her. Lord Darlington admires
her fan, which her husband has just given her as a birthday present. It has
her name ...

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