"Vezin, appearing first in London at the Opera Comique in 1877. Later she played Emilia in ""Othello"" and various English comedy parts at the St. James's Theatre. She appeared in W. S. Gilbert's play ""Gretchen"" in 1897. In 1883 she was engaged by the Bancrofts to play leading parts in """"Fédora"""" and other dramas at the Haymarket Theatre. In 1891 she played Lady Teazle in Charles Wyndham's production of ""School for Scandal"", and two years later played Mrs. Arbuthnot with Herbert Beerbohm Tree in Oscar Wilde's ""A Woman of No Importance""."" She married three times, but for stage purposes she"
"of Wilde's play reveals she is the scandalous Mrs. Erlynne, who in middle age becomes entangled with Lord Arthur Windermere, whose young and beautiful but socially conservative wife Margaret tends to judge others harshly. Lord Windermere financially supports Mrs. Erlynne, allowing her to live in the elegant manner to which she's accustomed, and the couple become the favorite subject of local gossips. When Margaret hears the stories, she mistakenly believes the two are involved in a clandestine affair and subsequently allows herself to succumb to the charms of Lord Robert Darlington, who has made no secret of his ongoing romantic"
"would have her as a mother. Hester assures her that she would. Gerald sees his father's glove on the floor, and when he asks who has visited, Mrs. Arbuthnot simply replies, ""A man of no importance."" Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor-manager of London's Haymarket Theatre, asked Oscar Wilde to write him a play following the success of Wilde's ""Lady Windermere's Fan"" at the St. James Theatre. Wilde was initially quite reluctant since the character Tree would take was not the sort of part he associated with the actor: Wilde went so far as to describe Lord Illingworth as himself. This appears"
"Oscar Wilde (play) Oscar Wilde is a 1936 play written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes. It is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character. The play, which contains much of Wilde's actual writings, starts with Wilde's literary success and his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, turns into a courtroom melodrama, and ends with Wilde as a broken alcoholic after two years in prison. Owing to the play's subject matter it was never granted a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and could, therefore,"
"to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. By the summer of 1891 Wilde had already written three plays: ""Vera; or, The Nihilists"" and ""The Duchess of Padua"" had found little success, and ""Salome"" had been censored. Unperturbed, he decided to write another play but turned from tragedy to comedy. He"
"A Woman of No Importance A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper-class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. The play is set in ""The Present"" (i.e. 1893). The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate. The upper class guests spend the better part of Act I exchanging social gossip and small talk. Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an American"
"Jarvis. A Woman of No Importance A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper-class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. The play is set in ""The Present"" (i.e. 1893). The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate. The upper class guests spend the better part of Act I exchanging social gossip and small talk. Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an"
"treatment of their friend Oscar Wilde. The robbery takes place at The Marquess' house in Hertfordshire, where Raffles and Bunny are interrupted by the Prince of Wales and a Scotland Yard detective, who discover the Prince's personal letters have also been stolen. Graham Greene precedes the published version of the play with an author's note, which explains the story cannot of course be accepted as strictly true to history: I have in one respect seriously deviated from the truth – the Marquess of Queensberry met his end in January 1900 and I have extended his life into the late summer"
"as Tredwell ""Jonathan Coote"" as Lemoine ""Jacqueline Dutoit"" as Old Lady ""Robin Harvey Edwards"" as Lord Caterham ""Michele Gallagher"" as Lady Eileen Brent ""Martyn James"" as The Hon. George Lomax ""Jonathan Dryden Taylor"" as Bill Eversleigh ""Darrell Brockis"" as Anthony Cade ""Flora Berkeley"" as Virginia Revel ""Richard Addison"" as the Stranger ""Ronald Simon"" as Superintendent Battle ""Matthew Lloyd Davies"" as Herbert Banks ""Richard Galazka"" as Boris Anchoukoff Chimneys (play) Chimneys is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie and is based upon her own 1925 novel ""The Secret of Chimneys"". The play was written in 1931 and was due to"
"including Sam Alexander, Kim Wall, Jo Herbert, Hugh Skinner and Isaac Stanmore. Wild Oats (play) Wild Oats is a play by the Irish writer John O'Keeffe, premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1791. O'Keefe's eyesight deteriorate so the play would have been dictated to his daughter Adelaide O'Keeffe. The naval captain Sir George Thunder and his valet and bosun John Dory arrive at an unknown country house on their hunt for deserters. They soon discover that it is the home of Thunder's niece Amaranth, who has been left a legacy on the condition that she live as a"
"two Dickens dramatisations, as Clara Peggoty in ""David Copperfield"" and Mrs Bedwin in ""Oliver Twist"" (both 1915). ""The Times"" singled out for mention her performances in Arnold Bennett's ""What the Public Wants"" (1909), F. Anstey's ""The Brass Bottle"" (1909), ""Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford"" (1913), ""Mr. Wu"" (1916), ""Lord and Lady Algy"" (1917), ""London Pride"" (1917), and ""The Young Person in Pink (1920)"". But ""The Manchester Guardian"" commented that popular fame came to her when nearly sixty, cast in the small role of Benita Mullet alongside Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls and Robertson Hare in ""Tons of Money"" in 1922. She made a great"
"The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith is a play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. It was first produced on 13 March 1895 at the Garrick Theatre, with Mrs Patrick Campbell playing the lead role of Agnes Ebbsmith. The theme of the play is social radicalism. The title character is a vehement critic of all social conventions, especially marriage, and an advocate of free love. Agnes, a 33-year-old widow, is staying in Venice with Lucas, to whom she is ""not"" married, though the servants and her friend Gertrude have assumed so. Lucas was a rising young Conservative politician who"
"beginning with ""Laura Garnett"", whose main character had much in common with Isadora Duncan. The play was first performed at Dobbs Ferry, New York State, in July 1934 with Ethel Barrymore and later in the Arts Theatre Club, London, in September 1936 with Mary Clare playing the title role. ""The Four Partners"", a play in German by Jochen Huth, was adapted by Stokes and produced by Margaret Webster at London's Q Theatre in October 1936. ""Oscar Wilde"" was the most successful of the Stokes brothers' plays. The play was based on the life of Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend,"
"England in 1788 but she made her name as ""Mrs Wilmot"" in America. She was said to be the second most popular actress in America and a favourite of General Washington. She appeared at Covent Garden and at the Haymarket theatres where she was a one of the most popular comedians for fifteen years. In 1787 she appeared as ""Mrs Dove"" in Cumberland's comedy and she was recorded in this role in her Samuel de Wilde painting. In 1790 she published her ""Secret History of the Green Room"" which was an autobiography. In 1833 Samuel De Wilde exhibited a painting"
"to have made Tree all the more determined and thus Wilde wrote the play while staying at a farmhouse near Felbrigg in Norfolk — with Lord Alfred Douglas — while his wife and sons stayed at Babbacombe Cliff near Torquay. Tree enjoyed the part of Lord Illingworth and continued to play it outside the theatre, leading Wilde to comment ""every day Herbert becomes ""de plus en plus oscarisé"""" (""more and more Oscarised""). The play opened on 19 April 1893. The first performance was a great success, though Wilde, while taking his bow as the author, was booed, apparently because of"
"Project Gutenberg The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith is a play by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. It was first produced on 13 March 1895 at the Garrick Theatre, with Mrs Patrick Campbell playing the lead role of Agnes Ebbsmith. The theme of the play is social radicalism. The title character is a vehement critic of all social conventions, especially marriage, and an advocate of free love. Agnes, a 33-year-old widow, is staying in Venice with Lucas, to whom she is ""not"" married, though the servants and her friend Gertrude have assumed so. Lucas was a rising young Conservative"
"the classic British music hall song of that period My Old Man, and as a character in Oscar Wilde's children's story ""The Devoted Friend""; Wilde also mentions how the call of the linnet awakens ""The Selfish Giant"" to the one tree where it is springtime in his garden. William Butler Yeats evokes the image of the common linnet in ""The Lake Isle of Innisfree"" (1890) in line 8: ""And evening full of the linnet's wings."" In the novel ""The Old Curiosity Shop"" by Charles Dickens, the heroine Nell keeps ""only a poor linnet"" in a cage, which she leaves for"
"received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. The film grossed over $5,000,000, Fox's highest-grossing picture of the 1940s. The film's title is drawn from William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"". In Act I, Scene V, the Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to ""leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her."" In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) returns to his remote island home, called ""Back of"
"Lady Windermere's Fan Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts"
"and Lady Windermere keep their secrets. The premiere at the St James's Theatre was followed by a notorious speech given by Wilde. When Wilde answered the calls of ""Author!"" and appeared before the curtains after the third act, critics were more offended by the cigarette in his hand than his egotistic speech: Mrs. Erlynne was originated by Marion Terry, and Lady Windermere by Winifred Emery. The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere in that production. By showing in St."
"The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others"
"Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"", which is dedicated to her. Sos Eltis Sos Eltis is Fellow and Tutor in English at Brasenose College, Oxford. She is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century specialist, with a special interest in theatre. she is also Vice-Principal of the College. Eltis is the author of ""Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the plays of Oscar Wilde"", which has been described as ""a radical re-examination of the plays of Oscar Wilde"", and of ""Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on Stage 1800-1930"". Eltis is a keen oarswoman, is a vegetarian and has two sons. Eltis"
"of 375 performances, starring Edward Woodward as Charles, Louise Troy as Ruth, Tammy Grimes as Elvira and Beatrice Lillie as Madame Arcati. It had a three-month West End run in 1964–65, with Denis Quilley as Charles, Jan Walters as Ruth, Marti Stevens as Elvira and Cicely Courtneidge as Madame Arcati. Blithe Spirit (play) Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward. The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he"
"about"". The play ran at the Strand until 22 February 1958, a total of 1,231 performances. The Hornett household is dominated by Emma, the tyrannical wife of Henry, sister-in-law of Edie, and mother of Shirley. Able Seaman Albert Tuffnell is in love with Shirley, but he views the prospect of marrying into her family with concern. He is an orphan and has never known home life. He decides to shock Mrs Hornett into recognising how badly she behaves to other people. By pretending to jilt Shirley on their wedding morning he sets off a chain of events that lead family,"
"by Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". O'Mealy finds echoes of Wilde's Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen in Lady Rumpers and Felicity, and of Wilde's linguistic absurdities in some of Bennett's dialogue. He identifies Joe Orton's 1969 farce ""What the Butler Saw"" as another influence. Although the play is farcical for most of its length, the ending is equivocal, and some have seen Wicksteed's solitary, spotlit dance as a dance of death. Billington emphasises the farcical side of the piece, whereas the critic Ronald Bergan views it as ""rather more a wake than a celebration"". Habeas Corpus (play) Habeas Corpus"
"Wilde. Throughout her career, he would come see her act and give her critiques, such as in one of her roles in Frances Hodgson Burnett's ""The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy"" in 1889. Wilde's comment was ""you have definitely asserted your position as an actress of the first order. Your future on our stage is assured."" Early in her time in London, she became enamoured of Ibsen's plays. In 1891 a London matinee revival of ""A Doll's House"" put Robins in contact with Marion Lea. Together they would form a joint management, making this the ""first step toward the theatre that"
"Harry Kurnitz and Wilder. Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton), a master barrister in ill health, takes on Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) as a client, despite the objections of his private nurse, Miss Plimsoll (Elsa Lanchester), who says the doctor warns him against taking on any criminal cases. Vole is accused of murdering Mrs Emily French (Norma Varden), a rich, older widow who had become enamoured with him, going so far as to make him the main beneficiary of her will. Strong circumstantial evidence points to Vole as the killer, but Sir Wilfrid believes Vole is innocent. When Sir Wilfrid speaks"
"Theatre. She has toured the UK extensively, appearing in productions of ""The Constant Wife"" (Richmond Theatre, 2004), ""Mrs. Warren's Profession"" (Richmond Theatre, 2009), ""Death Trap"" (Theatre Royal, Norwich, 2002), Agatha Christie's ""Verdict"" (Floral Pavilion Theatre, 2011), ""Dangerous Obsession"" with Simon Ward (Theatre Royal, Bath, 1989), and ""Lord Arthur Saville's Crime"" by Oscar Wilde (Richmond Theatre, 2005). She was in ""Time and the Conways"", ""Lower Depths"" and ""The Cherry Orchard"", and played a leading part in Arthur Miller's ""Broken Glass"" at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. In the Edinburgh Festival Fringe she appeared in the premiere of Dario Fo's ""Abduction"
"of Lady Bracknell. The film is noted for its acting, although the parts played by Redgrave and Denison called for actors ten years younger. Margaret Rutherford, who plays Miss Prism in this adaptation, played Lady Bracknell in the 1946 BBC production. The film received a BAFTA nomination for Dorothy Tutin as Most Promising Newcomer and a Golden Lion nomination for Anthony Asquith at the Venice Film Festival. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film) The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) is a British film adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, who also adapted"
"the late 17th century. Thomas Shadwell's play ""The Squire of Alsatia"" (1688) contains a character called Mrs Termagant who is out for revenge on one of the other characters, and is described as a ""furious, malicious, and revengeful woman; perpetually plaguing him, and crossing him in all his designs; pursuing him continually with her malice, even to the attempting of his life."" Arthur Murphy's play ""The Upholsterer"" (1758) also contains a female character called ""Termagant"". In Washington Irving's ""Rip Van Winkle"", Dame Van Winkle is described as a ""termagant wife"". ""Virago"", ""fishwife"" and ""shrew"" are near synonyms for ""termagant"" in"
"of the first act-and-a-half surrounds the witty conversations of members of the upper-classes, the drama only beginning in the second half of the second act with Lord Illingworth and Mrs Arbuthnot finding their pasts catching up with them. Like many of Wilde's plays, the main theme is the secrets of the upper-classes: Lord Illingworth discovers that the young man he has employed as a secretary is in fact his illegitimate son, a situation similar to the central plot of ""Lady Windermere's Fan"". Secrets would also affect the characters of ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". In one scene, Lord Illingworth and"
"The Trials of Oscar Wilde The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. It was written by Allen and Ken Hughes, directed by Hughes, and co-produced by Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli and Harold Huth. The screenplay was by Ken Hughes and Montgomery Hyde, based on the play ""The Stringed Lute"" by John Furnell. The film was made by Warwick Films and released by United Artists. It stars Peter"
"Shakespeare. I Her husband opened the rebuilt Her Majesty's Theatre in 1887, where she then appeared under his direction, also assisting him in theatre management. In 1893, she created the role of Mrs Allonby in Wilde's ""A Woman of No Importance"", opposite Tree's Lord Illingworth. Although most celebrated for her performances in contemporary comedies, Mrs Tree appeared with success in more serious roles, including Ophelia in ""Hamlet"" (1891, 1882, and 1905), Lady Percy in ""Henry IV, Part 1"", Calpurnia in ""Julius Caesar"" (1900), Gertrude in ""Hamlet"" (1905), and Portia in ""Julius Caesar"" (1911). In Shakespearean comedy she was well known"