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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’
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’
Shaw
Gertrude’s ‘mechanical idealism’
Varty
Wilde saw marriage as a ‘transaction’
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
Wilde
‘Disobedience is mankind’s original virtue’ (Wilde)
Gregor
In the end ‘the plot is happily resolved’
Shaw
‘Wilde plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audiences, with the whole theatre’