![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Miss Mabel Chiltern, Sir Robert's lovely younger sister, has desires and ambitions of her own. Goring knows the lady of old and plots to help his friend. ![]() Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. ![]() Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. ![]()
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