Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Well Made PlayThe tradition of the well-made play emerged in the nineteenth century. It was also called "piece bien faite", meaning 'Second Empire Drama'. It was first made popular by the works of Eugene Scribe and Victorien Sardou of France. The tradition reached it's peak with Sardou's works in which the techniques of construction invented by Scribe were completely used. Construction and stagecraft are exploited fully rather than characterization and ideas. In the plot construction of the well-made play, an action turns on artificial complications that are easily solved by ingenious solutions. The plays are made up with only four scenes, and props become important in detailed realism. The stage is set up in a drawing room setting, with doors that open and close. The problem or secret in the play is revealed in the obligatory scene, where often it causes a sudden change. Eventually, the play ends happily and agreeably tying up all loose ends. I will discuss Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde, and why it is considered a well-made play.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, critic, and poet. He was part of the Decadence,
120-121) In the end of the play, presenting some excuses to Lord Augustus who feels like jilted and deluded male, she repairs his broken heart. Erlynne do? What will they do, when they see the mislaid fan? What will do Lord Augustus when she was Mrs. Erlynne with her fan if she comes to her birthday party. It caused quite a controversy due to its subject of Crimean deviance and lack of morals, but made little money. ' In such a short time , the relation between Mrs. Erlynne under the curtain? The action of the play progresses so rapidly due to the limited time in the play. Wilde found criticism and self-consciousness necessary as sin. His following plays include, "A Woman of No Importance" (1892), "An Ideal Husband" (1893), and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1893), they were all successful and finally established Wilde as a playwright. Obvious examples are Lady Windermere and the Duchess. In the exposition part, it is just prepared ground for the dramatic situation that is Lady Windermere's being informed of the rumored affair between her husband and Mrs. Erlynne and Lord Windermere which rumored for six months suddenly emerged as a scandal. The plot constructions of the well-made play bases on the use of the standard devices in order to bring about complications, which are untied by some facile solutions. The play of situation pointed at drawing attention the spectator, not only to the character but also, the action and the behaviors that the character will do next. Lady Windermere tries to be superlative at the expense of being realistic.
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