Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan (Lady Windermere 's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman ) is a social comedy in four acts by Irish writer Oscar Wilde.

The premiere of the play took place on 20 February 1892, at St. James 's Theatre in London. Nearly a year later, on February 5, 1893, Lady Windermere's Fan for the first time on Broadway in Palmer 's Theatre was performed.

Content

After twenty years of absence, Mrs. Erlynne who once left her husband and child for her lover and was for breach of the " fine " society, back to London. In order to be recognized again by the company, it must operate in the House of Windermere, which form the center of London's upscale society. So she receives an invitation to a celebration held there, Mrs. Erlynne Lord Windermere reveals a secret: She's Lady Lytton, who believed dead his wife's mother. To avoid a scandal, invites Lord Windermere then Mrs. Erlynne to the celebration.

Lady Windermere suspects, however, that her husband is having an affair with Mrs. Erlynne and goes to the house of Lord Darlington, who has confessed his love for her. Lady Windermere leaves her husband a farewell letter but Mrs. Erlynne place, which also goes into the house Darlington. While Mrs. Erlynne Lady Windermere declared that they had no means a love affair with her ​​husband, Lord Darlington and Lord Windermere also appear in Darlington's house.

The two women hide, where Lady Windermere leaves the fan she got from her husband as a birthday gift, lying on a table. Lord Windermere recognizes the subjects of his wife and demanded an explanation from Darlington. While Mrs. Erlynne comes out of hiding and says it has taken the fan out of the house of Windermere, Lady Windermere can escape undetected.

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Films

Oscar Wilde's satire was filmed several times. In 1916, originated in England a first silent version directed by Fred Paul. Ernst Lubitsch for Warner Brothers in 1925, a further adaptation of the play. Under the title of Lady Windermere's Fan was published in 1935 a German film adaptation. Directed by Heinz Hilpert Lil Dagover, Walter Rilla and Hanna Waag played the lead roles. In addition to several films for television release in 2004 Good Woman - A Summer in Amalfi by Mike Barker, who moved the action to the 1930s.

Musicals

Designs of Lady Windermere's Fan Karl Farkas and Peter Kreuder wrote a musical entitled The Lady from Paris, which premiered with Zarah Leander and Paul Hörbiger in the lead roles in Vienna in 1964.

Also the 1954 London musical premiered After the Ball by Noël Coward is based on Lady Windermere's Fan.