I was going crazy trying to remember what the whole Claudine Gay imbroglio reminded me of; imagine my excitement, and chagrin, when I realized it was the obscure Oscar Wilde screen adaption after which this very blog is named! An Ideal Husband, starring a luminous Cate Blanchette and a young, unspoiled Jeremy Northam, is a gem from the late 1990s cinematic renaissance of Victorian drawing room comedies; see if it you can.
Neither here nor there, but Shakespeare Theatre Company staged "An Ideal Husband" a few years back. Thanks for refreshing my memory of the plot and drawing the sharp parallels with our current Gay mess. And also good to know whence "Feminine Chaos"!
Neither here nor there, but Shakespeare Theatre Company staged "An Ideal Husband" a few years back. Thanks for refreshing my memory of the plot and drawing the sharp parallels with our current Gay mess. And also good to know whence "Feminine Chaos"!
Thanks for posting, Kat! If you ever decide to publish exclusively on Substack, I’ll be the first-in-line paying subsciber!