An ideal husband
READING AGE 12+
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around black and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours.
Oscar Fingal O"Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London"s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46.
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lord caversham. Certainly, and you well deserve it too. You have got what we want so much in political life nowadays—high character, high moral tone, high principles. [ To lord goring.] Everything that you have not got, sir, and never will have.
lord goring. I don’t like principles, father. I prefer prejudices.
[sir robert chil……
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