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''Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman'' is a 1892 comedy by Creator/OscarWilde. The play is a comedic satire. It has been made into numerous films, including a 1925 film that was directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch and inducted into the NationalFilmRegistry, a 1949 film directed by Creator/OttoPreminger titled ''The Fan'', and a 2004 adaptation that was renamed "A Good Woman".
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''Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman'' is a 1892 comedy by Creator/OscarWilde. The play is a comedic satire. It has been made into numerous films, including a 1925 film that was directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch and inducted into the NationalFilmRegistry, UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry, a 1949 film directed by Creator/OttoPreminger titled ''The Fan'', and a 2004 adaptation that was renamed "A Good Woman".
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* GentlemanSnarker: Lord Darlington and Cecil Graham.
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* WhiteAndGrayMorality WhiteAndGrayMorality: Despite evil being discussed numerous times, especially by Lord and Lady Windermere, there are no wicked characters in this play.
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Lady Windermere suspects her husband may be having an affair, based on the gossip of neighbours and her discovery that he has been paying large sums to a Mrs Erlynne. Having had enough, she finally leaves him in anger after he invites Mrs Erlynne to her birthday ball. Mrs Erlynne follows her to the house of the man who propositioned her, Lord Darlington, who is absent. The two women have a heart-to-heart, and all is not as it seems. Suddenly, a group of men, including Lord Windermere, arrive, forcing the two women to hide. Unfortunately, Lady Windermere has left her fan on the table for her husband to see...
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Lady Windermere suspects her husband may be having an affair, based on the gossip of neighbours and her discovery that he has been paying large sums to a Mrs Erlynne. Having had enough, she finally leaves him in anger after he invites Mrs Erlynne to her birthday ball. Mrs Erlynne follows her to the house of the man who propositioned her, Lord Darlington, who is absent. The two women have a heart-to-heart, and all is not as it seems. Suddenly, a group of men, including Lord Windermere, arrive, forcing the two women to hide. Unfortunately, Lady Windermere has left her fan on the table for her husband to see...find...
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* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Mrs Erlynne]].Erlynne has been blackmailing Lord Darlington]].
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* GenerationXerox: Mrs Erlynne manages to save [[spoiler:her daughter]] from repeating her own mistakes of 20 years earlier.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mrs Erlynne, upon reading Lady Windermere's letter to her husband, saying [[spoiler:she is leaving him.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mrs Erlynne, upon reading Lady Windermere's letter to her husband, saying [[spoiler:she is leaving him. She concluded he was having an affair when she discovered that he had been paying Mrs Erlynne large sums of money, while the real reason for the payments was blackmail.]]
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* SecretKeeper: Lord and Lady Windermere each keep an important secret from the other in order to save their happy loving marriage. Mrs Erlynne knows both secrets, and keeps them too.
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* SecretKeeper: Lord and Lady Windermere each keep an important secret from the other in order to save their happy loving marriage. [[spoiler:He never tells her that Mrs Erlynne knows both secrets, is her mother, and she never tells him that she went to Lord Darlington's chambers and was rescued by Mrs Erlynne.]] Mrs Erlynne keeps them both secrets too.
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''Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman'' is a 1892 comedy by Creator/OscarWilde. The play is a comedic satire. It has been made into numerous films, including a 1925 film that was directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch and inducted into the NationalFilmRegistry, a 1949 film directed by Creator/OttoPreminger titled ''The Fan'', and a 2004 adaptation that was renamed "A Good Woman".
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* UpperClassWit: Lord Darlington and Cecil Graham.
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''Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman'' is a 1892 comedy by Creator/OscarWilde. The play is a comedic satire. It has been made into numerous films, including a 1925 film that was directed by Creator/ErnstLubitsch and inducted into the NationalFilmRegistry, and a 2004 adaptation that was renamed "A Good Woman".
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* SignatureItemClue: Lady Windermere goes to her other admirer's dwellings in a moment of weakness. He isn't there, but Mrs Erlynne arrives there and sets her straight. Both women hide when a group of men including Lord Windermere arrive unexpectedly, but Lady Windermere's fan is discovered on the table, recognised by her husband. [[spoiler:Fortunately Mrs Erlynne gives herself up, allowing Lady Windermere to escape unseen.]]
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* GenerationXerox: Mrs Erlynne manages to save [[spoiler:Lady Windermere, her daughter,]] from repeating her own mistakes of 20 years earlier.
* GutFeeling: Mrs Erlynne's saves the day, when she decides to [[spoiler:open Lady Windermere's letter to her husband.]]
* GutFeeling: Mrs Erlynne's saves the day, when she decides to [[spoiler:open Lady Windermere's letter to her husband.]]
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* GenerationXerox: Mrs Erlynne manages to save [[spoiler:Lady Windermere, her daughter,]] [[spoiler:her daughter]] from repeating her own mistakes of 20 years earlier.
* GutFeeling: Mrs Erlynne's saves the day, when she decides to[[spoiler:open Lady open [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's letter to her husband.letter.]]
* GutFeeling: Mrs Erlynne's saves the day, when she decides to
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mrs Erlynne, upon reading [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's letter to her husband, saying she is leaving him.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Mrs Erlynne, upon reading [[spoiler:Lady Lady Windermere's letter to her husband, saying she [[spoiler:she is leaving him.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Lady Windermere and [[spoiler:her mother]] Mrs Erlynne share the name of Margaret, lampshaded when the former gives the latter her fan, which has the name inscribed.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Lady Windermere and [[spoiler:her mother]] Mrs Erlynne share the name of Margaret, lampshaded when the former gives the latter her fan, which has the name inscribed.
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* PerspectiveReversal: Lady Windermere thinks Mrs Erlynne is a wicked woman; her husband, however, thinks there is good in her, allows her to [[spoiler:blackmail him]] because he thinks she deserves another chance, and has her at the house as a guest against his wife's wishes. Mrs Erlynne's act of [[spoiler:saving Lady Windermere from disgrace at the cost of her own second chance in society]] reverses the situation: Lady Windermere is deeply grateful to her, and is forced to dispense with her previous black-and-white worldview; her husband, having witnessed Mrs Erlynne [[spoiler:disgracing herself in a gentleman's chambers]] after all he's done for her, considers her beyond the MoralEventHorizon. [[spoiler:He comes around, though.]]
* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: After having [[spoiler:blackmailed]] Lord Windermere, Mrs Erlynne exposed herself to [[spoiler:scandal and contempt]] in order to explain the presence of [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's fan and thus let her escape unseen.]]
* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: After having [[spoiler:blackmailed]] Lord Windermere, Mrs Erlynne exposed herself to [[spoiler:scandal and contempt]] in order to explain the presence of [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's fan and thus let her escape unseen.]]
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* PerspectiveReversal: Lady Windermere thinks Mrs Erlynne is a wicked woman; her husband, however, thinks there is good in her, allows her to [[spoiler:blackmail him]] because he thinks she deserves another chance, and has her at the house as a guest against his wife's wishes. Mrs Erlynne's act of [[spoiler:saving Lady Windermere from disgrace at the cost of her own second chance in society]] reverses the situation: Lady Windermere is deeply grateful to her, and is forced to dispense with her previous black-and-white worldview; her husband, having witnessed Mrs Erlynne [[spoiler:disgracing herself in [[spoiler:in a gentleman's chambers]] chambers at night]] after all he's done for her, considers her beyond the MoralEventHorizon. [[spoiler:He comes around, though.]]
* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: After having [[spoiler:blackmailed]] Lord Windermere, Mrs Erlynne exposed herself to[[spoiler:scandal and contempt]] [[spoiler:scandal]] in order to explain the presence of [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's fan and thus let her escape unseen.]]
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Zigzagged. At first Lady Windermere appears to be a WideEyedIdealist in a world of intrigue and lies, but late, later, the play moves toward the idealistic side.
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* HourglassPlot: Lady Windermere thinks Mrs Erlynne is a wicked woman; her husband, however, thinks there is good in her, allows her to [[spoiler:blackmail him]] because he thinks she deserves another chance, and has her at the house as a guest against his wife's wishes. Mrs Erlynne's act of [[spoiler:saving Lady Windermere from disgrace at the cost of her own second chance in society]] reverses the situation: Lady Windermere is deeply grateful to her, and is forced to dispense with her previous black-and-white worldview; her husband, having witnessed Mrs Erlynne [[spoiler:disgracing herself in a gentleman's chambers]] after all he's done for her, considers her beyond the MoralEventHorizon. [[spoiler:He comes around, though.]]
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* GutFeeling: Mrs Erlynne's saves the day, when she decides to [[spoiler:open Lady Windermere's letter to her husband.]]
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* GenerationXerox: Mrs Erlynne manages to save [[spoiler:Lady Windermere, her daughter,]] from repeating her own mistakes of 20 years earlier.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Mrs Erlynne's mistake, which Lady Windermere nearly makes too.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Subverted. Mrs Erlynne is [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's mother]], but never ends up telling her.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Lady Windermere and [[spoiler:her mother]] Mrs Erlynne share the name of Margaret, lampshaded when the former gives the latter her fan, which has the name inscribed.
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* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: The Duchess of Berwick invokes this in her conversations with Australian gentleman Mr Hopper.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The following could describe either this play or ''Othello'': the titular character [[spoiler:wrongly]] suspects their spouse of infidelity, which is made worse by the spouse pleading to them for favor on behalf of the suspected paramour - and matters are made even worse by the sight of a personal token left in the gentleman's chambers.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The following could describe either this play or ''Othello'': the titular character [[spoiler:wrongly]] suspects their spouse of infidelity, which is made worse by the spouse pleading to them for favor on behalf of the suspected paramour - and matters are the situation is made even worse more compromising by the sight of a recognizable personal token left that was dropped in the gentleman's someone's private chambers.
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* IrrevocableMessage: Fortunately averted; Lady Windermere's letter is intercepted by [[spoiler:Mrs Erlynne.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: Arguably. [[spoiler:After having blackmailed Lord Windermere, Mrs Erlynne exposed herself to scandal and contempt in order to explain the presence of Lady Windermere's fan and thus let her escape unseen.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: Arguably. [[spoiler:After After having blackmailed [[spoiler:blackmailed]] Lord Windermere, Mrs Erlynne exposed herself to scandal [[spoiler:scandal and contempt contempt]] in order to explain the presence of Lady [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's fan and thus let her escape unseen.]]
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* CurtainCamouflage: Both women do this in Lord Darlington's house.
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* DespairEventHorizon: Lady Windermere teeters on this for some time
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* RedemptionEqualsAffliction: Arguably. [[spoiler:After having blackmailed Lord Windermere, Mrs Erlynne exposed herself to scandal and contempt in order to explain the presence of his wife's Lady Windermere's fan and thus let her escape unseen.]]
* SexForSolace: Lady Windermere temporarily resolves to go to [[spoiler:Lord Darlington]] for this.
* SilentScapegoat: Mrs Erlynne becomes one in the last act.
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* ZeroApprovalGambit: Mrs Erlynne pulls a spur-of-the-moment one in order to save [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's reputation and her marriage.]]
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Mrs Erlynne pulls a spur-of-the-moment one in order to save [[spoiler:Lady Windermere's reputation and her marriage.]]
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Lady Windermere suspects her husband may be having an affair, based on the gossip of neighbours and her discovery that he has been paying large sums to a Mrs Erlynne. Lord Windermere invites her to his wife's birthday, prompting Lady Windermere to leave in anger. Mrs Erlynne follows her to the house of the man who propositioned her, leading to a heart-to-heart. A group of men, including Lord Windermere, arrive, forcing the two women to hide. Unfortunately, Lady Windermere has left her fan on the table for them to see…
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Lady Windermere suspects her husband may be having an affair, based on the gossip of neighbours and her discovery that he has been paying large sums to a Mrs Erlynne. Lord Windermere Having had enough, she finally leaves him in anger after he invites Mrs Erlynne to her to his wife's birthday, prompting Lady Windermere to leave in anger. birthday ball. Mrs Erlynne follows her to the house of the man who propositioned her, leading to Lord Darlington, who is absent. The two women have a heart-to-heart. A heart-to-heart, and all is not as it seems. Suddenly, a group of men, including Lord Windermere, arrive, forcing the two women to hide. Unfortunately, Lady Windermere has left her fan on the table for them her husband to see…
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''Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman'' is a 1892 comedy by Creator/OscarWilde. The play is a comedic satire.
Lady Windermere suspects her husband may be having an affair, based on the gossip of neighbours and her discovery that he has been paying large sums to a Mrs Erlynne. Lord Windermere invites her to his wife's birthday, prompting Lady Windermere to leave in anger. Mrs Erlynne follows her to the house of the man who propositioned her, leading to a heart-to-heart. A group of men, including Lord Windermere, arrive, forcing the two women to hide. Unfortunately, Lady Windermere has left her fan on the table for them to see…
!!''LadyWindermeresFan'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* ArtifactTitle
* Blackmail: [[spoiler:Mrs Erlynne]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Lady Windermere teeters on this for some time
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mrs Erlynne.
* MistakenForCheating
* SecondActBreakup: Literally. The second act ends with Lady Windermere deciding to leave her husband.
* TwistEnding
Lady Windermere suspects her husband may be having an affair, based on the gossip of neighbours and her discovery that he has been paying large sums to a Mrs Erlynne. Lord Windermere invites her to his wife's birthday, prompting Lady Windermere to leave in anger. Mrs Erlynne follows her to the house of the man who propositioned her, leading to a heart-to-heart. A group of men, including Lord Windermere, arrive, forcing the two women to hide. Unfortunately, Lady Windermere has left her fan on the table for them to see…
!!''LadyWindermeresFan'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* ArtifactTitle
* Blackmail: [[spoiler:Mrs Erlynne]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Lady Windermere teeters on this for some time
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mrs Erlynne.
* MistakenForCheating
* SecondActBreakup: Literally. The second act ends with Lady Windermere deciding to leave her husband.
* TwistEnding
