文档介绍：An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband
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An Ideal Husband
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, . VISCOUNT GORING, his Son
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
TE 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
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An Ideal Husband
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 pleted within twenty-four hours.
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET
Sole Lessee: Mr. Herbert Beerbohm Tree Managers: Mr. Lewis
Waller and Mr. H. H. Morell January 3rd, 1895
THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, Mr. Alfred Bishop. VISCOUNT
GORING, Mr. Charles H. Hawtrey. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Mr. Lewis
Waller. TE DE NANJAC, Mr. Cosmo Stuart. MR. MONTFORD,
Mr. Harry Stanford. PHIPPS, Mr. C. H. Brookfield. MASON, Mr. H.
Deane. JAMES, Mr. Charles Meyrick. HAROLD, Mr. Goodhart. LADY
CHILTERN, Miss Julia Neilson. LADY MARKBY, Miss Fanny Brough.
COUNTESS OF BASILDON, Miss Vane Featherston. MRS.
MARCHMONT, Miss Helen Forsyth. MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Miss
Maud Millet. MRS. CHEVELEY, Miss Florence West.
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An Ideal Husband
FIRST ACT
SCENE
The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square.
[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the
staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty,
about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as e
up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax
lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry -
representing the Triumph of Love,