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Title: An Ideal Husband
A Play

Author: Oscar Wilde

Release Date: March 27, 2009 [eBook #885]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN IDEAL HUSBAND***

Transcribed from the 1912 Methuen and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

AN IDEAL HUSBAND

A PLAY

BY
OSCAR WILDE

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METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

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_First Published_, _at 1s. net_, _in 1912_

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_This book was First Published in 1893_

_First Published_ (_Second Edition_) _by _February_ _1908_
Methuen & Co._
_Third Edition_ _October_ _1909_
_Fourth edition_ _October_ _1910_
_Fifth Edition_ _May_ _1912_

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, K.G.

VISCOUNT GORING, his Son

SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs

VICOMTE DE NANJAC, Attache at the French Embassy in London

MR. MONTFORD

MASON, Butler to Sir Robert Chiltern

PHIPPS, Lord Goring's Servant

JAMES }

HAROLD } Footmen

LADY CHILTERN

LADY MARKBY

THE COUNTESS OF BASILDON

MRS. MARCHMONT

MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Sir Robert Chiltern's Sister

MRS. CHEVELEY

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY

ACT I. _The Octagon Room in Sir Robert Chiltern's House in Grosvenor
Square_.

ACT II. _Morning-room in Sir Robert Chiltern's House_.

ACT III. _The Library of Lord Goring's House in Curzon Street_.

ACT IV. _Same as Act II_.

TIME: _The Present_

PLACE: _London_.

_The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours_.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET

_Sole Lessee