An Ideal Husband

Sir Robert Chiltern, a rising political star, finds both his spotless reputation and his marriage threatened when a woman blackmails him with evidence of a political indiscretion committed early in his career. Among Wilde’s sparkling epigrams, dizzying paradoxes and farcical masterstrokes, An Ideal Husband presents forgiving kindness for the fallible human race and Wilde’s attack on what he saw as the foolish moral absolutism of his day.