AIH CRITICS

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Eltis

  • ‘Gilded society’

  • ‘Outward appearance is all that counts’

  • ‘Indeterminate ending’

  • ‘Robert Chiltern does not beat the system, but joins it’


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Woodcock

  • ‘In a circle where all are guilty… Chiltern is able to escape without punishment’

  • ‘Goring… in this play acts as Wilde’s personal voice’


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Shaw

Gertrude’s ‘mechanical idealism’

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Varty

Wilde saw marriage as a ‘transaction’

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Phillip Prowse stage production 1986 v Parker’s film adaptation 1999

  • Prowse ends on ‘Is it love you feel for me, or pity merely?’

  • 1999 film ends on happy, romantic tone


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Wilde


  • ‘Disobedience is mankind’s original virtue’ (Wilde)


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Gregor

In the end ‘the plot is happily resolved’

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Shaw


‘Wilde plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole theatre’