Über den Autor
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) was a celebrated Irish-born playwright, short story writer, poet, and personality in Victorian London. He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his many plays, such as Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband. During his imprisonment for gross indecency, he wrote De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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This 1895 play revolves around blackmail and political corruption. The theme of public and private honor runs throughout the work. The play opens at a fashionable dinner party in London. Several guests are involved in a plot to build a canal through Argentina. Blackmail, past love interests, and deceit are rampant. Surprisingly there just may be a happy ending after all.
