Preview
Production Season
Spring 2011
Production Staff
By Oscar Wilde. Directed by M. Susan Anthony
Recommended Citation
Theatre, DePauw, "Lady Windermere's Fan" (2011). Past DePauw Theatre Seasons. 28, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/commtheatre_past/28
Keywords
undergraduate theatre
Play Summary
As the play opens, the young and happily married Lady Windermere, a “good woman,” receives two items for her birthday: a lovely antique fan and the startling news that her husband may be having an affair with an older woman, the beautiful and famously promiscuous Mrs. Erlynne. But is the hold Mrs. Erylnne has on Lord Windermere of the adulterous kind? And why is she so interested in Lady Windermere? At the play’s crisis, Lady Windermere has risked her reputation and her happy life to obtain revenge upon her husband, only to be saved by none other than Mrs. Erylnne, the true exemplar of a “good woman.” First produced in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan, like many of Wilde's comedies, is a stinging satire on the morals of Victorian society, particularly the institution of marriage.