Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere and Lord Windermere are a happy, young couple - married for just under two years with a six-month-old child. On the day Lady Windermere is throwing one of the last parties of the season for her birthday, two friends, Lord Darlington and the Duchess of Berwick, come by to see her and imply that her husband has been cheating on her with a woman named Mrs. Erlynne. This rumor has spread throughout society because he has supposedly been giving her large sums of money. When Lady Windermere checks her husband's books, she finds that this is true. Lady Windermere and Lord Windermere argue about this when he returns home, and Lord Windermere asks Lady Windermere to invite Mrs. Erlynne to her birthday party.