Lady Windermere’s Fan

E180413
comedy drawing-room comedy social satire stage play

Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.

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Lady Windermere’s Fan canonical 3
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Lady Windermere 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf comedy ⓘ
drawing-room comedy ⓘ
social satire ⓘ
stage play ⓘ
adaptedAs radio plays ⓘ
silent films ⓘ
sound films ⓘ
television productions ⓘ
author Oscar Wilde ⓘ
centralPlotDevice misplaced fan ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
dramaticForm well-made play ⓘ
featuresCharacter Duchess of Berwick ⓘ
Lady Windermere’s Fan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Lady Windermere

Lord Darlington ⓘ
Lord Windermere ⓘ
Mrs Erlynne ⓘ
featuresProp fan ⓘ
firstPerformanceDate 1892-02-20 ⓘ
genre comedy of manners ⓘ
melodrama ⓘ
satire ⓘ
hasFamousLine We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ⓘ
influenced later comedies of manners ⓘ
literaryMovement Aestheticism ⓘ
Decadentism ⓘ
surface form: Decadent movement
mainTheme Victorian morality ⓘ
forgiveness ⓘ
hypocrisy ⓘ
marriage ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ
reputation ⓘ
scandal ⓘ
notableFor critique of Victorian social codes ⓘ
epigrammatic dialogue ⓘ
numberOfActs 4 ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOf Oscar Wilde’s major society comedies ⓘ
premiereLocation St James's Theatre ⓘ
surface form: St James’s Theatre, London
producerAtPremiere George Alexander ⓘ
setting London, England ⓘ
surface form: London
settingPeriod late Victorian era ⓘ
structure four-act comedy of manners ⓘ
subjectMatter Victorian high society ⓘ
sexual double standards ⓘ
social convention ⓘ
tone satirical ⓘ
witty ⓘ
writer Oscar Wilde ⓘ

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Oscar Wilde → notableWork → Lady Windermere’s Fan ⓘ
Oscar Wilde → wrote → Lady Windermere’s Fan ⓘ
St James's Theatre → notableProduction → Lady Windermere’s Fan ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lady Windermere's Fan
A Woman of No Importance → followsInOeuvre → Lady Windermere’s Fan ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan → featuresCharacter → Lady Windermere’s Fan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lady Windermere
Vaudeville Theatre → hasNotableProduction → Lady Windermere’s Fan ⓘ