Lady Windermere's Fan (PPC)(Penguin Popular Classics)|报价￥26.60|图书,进口原版,Art & Photography 艺术与摄影,Performing Arts 表演艺术,Wilde

品牌：Wilde

基本信息

·出版社：Penguin Classics

·页码：80 页码

·出版日：1995年

·ISBN：0140621733

·条码：9780140621730

·版次：New Ed

·装帧：平装

·丛书名：Penguin Popular Classics

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There is not a GOOD woman in London who would not applaud me. We have been too lax. We must make an example. I propose to begin to-night. [Picking up fan.] Yes, you gave me this fan to-day; it was your birthday present. If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.

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From Library Journal

In this audio, a capable cast portrays Victorian gentry in the London of 1892 with sly humor and skill. Laughter from the audience (nicely subdued by the sound engineer) greets Wilde's epigrams and delightful nonsense, e.g., "I can resist everything but temptation." A slight plot entails a shady woman's blackmail, suspicions of infidelity, and some melodrama. Purists following Wilde's polished text will miss the Duchess drinking disgusting mineral water to feign illness; Lady Windermere's relief over her husband's innocent checkbook before breaking into his incriminating one; and aphorisms like "nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion" and "Repentance is quite out of date," etc. Still, the producer gives a welcome introduction to a classic. Hearing a comedy of manners done so cleverly, compared to merely reading the script, adds enjoyment. Recommended where audio dramas circulate well.

-Gordon Blackwell, Eastchester, NY

Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.

FromAudioFile

Odd that the notoriously unconventional British wits Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward should write such conventional schmaltz as the latter's BRIEF ENCOUNTER and the former's FAN. At least Wilde flavored his saccharine melodrama with the epigrammatic gems that have kept it stageworthy. The morally supercilious Lady Windermere comes to believe her husband has begun an adulterous affair with an older woman of bad reputation. But a mitigating secret lies in the ostracized woman's true identity. This production, taped before a live audience, begins too hurriedly but eventually finds its pace. The nonpareil Miriam Margolyes excels in a comic supporting role, while lead Roger Rees does not rev up until the second act and Joanna Going is a particularly annoying Lady W. Y.R. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.

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