ウィンダミア卿夫人の扇 — Oscar Wilde
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Lady Windermere's Fan Author : Oscar Wilde Release date : January 1, 1997 [eBook #790] Most recently updated: June 7, 2021 Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/790 Credits : David Price *** START OF LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON Sixteenth Edition First Published 1893 First Issued by Methuen & Co. Ltd. ( Limited Editions on Hand-made Paper and Japanese Vellum ) February 1908 Third Edition ( F’cap 8 vo , 5 s. net ) September 1909 Fourth Edition (5 s. net ) June 1910 Fifth Edition ( F’cap 8 vo , 1 s. net ) November 3rd 1911 Sixth Edition (1 s. net ) November 1911 Eighth Edition (1 s. net ) 1912 , Ninth and Tenth Editions (1 s. net ) 1913 , Eleventh Edition (1 s. net ) 1914 , Twelfth Edition (1 s. net ) 1915 , Thirteenth Edition (1 s. net ) 1916 , Fourteenth and Fifteenth Edition (1 s. net ) 1917 Sixteenth Edition (5 s. net ) 1917 The literary and dramatic rights of “ Lady Windermere’s Fan ” belong to Sir George Alexander , by arrangement with whom this play is included in this edition . The acting version ( Samuel French ) does not contain the complete text . TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF ROBERT EARL OF LYTTON IN AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY Lord Windermere Lord Darlington Lord Augustus Lorton Mr. Dumby Mr. Cecil Graham Mr. Hopper Parker, Butler Lady Windermere The Duchess of Berwick Lady Agatha Carlisle Lady Plymdale Lady Stutfield Lady Jedburgh Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Mrs. Erlynne Rosalie, Maid THE SCENES OF THE PLAY Act I. Morning-room in Lord Windermere’s house . Act II. Drawing-room in Lord Windermere’s house . Act III. Lord Darlington’s rooms . Act IV. Same as Act I. Time : The Present . Place : London . The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours , beginning on a Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock , and ending the next day at 1.30 p.m. LONDON: ST. JAMES’S THEATRE Lessee and Manager : Mr. George Alexander February 22 nd , 1892. Lord Windermere Mr. George Alexander . Lord Darlington Mr. Nutcombe Gould . Lord Augustus Lorton Mr. H. H. Vincent . Mr. Cecil Graham Mr. Ben Webster . Mr. Dumby Mr. Vane-Tempest . Mr. Hopper Mr. Alfred Holles . Parker ( Butler ) Mr. V. Sansbury . Lady Windermere Miss Lily Hanbury . The Duchess of Berwick Miss Fanny Coleman . Lady Agatha Carlisle Miss Laura Graves . Lady Plymdale Miss Granville . Lady Jedburgh Miss B. Page . Lady Stutfield Miss Madge Girdlestone . Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Miss A. de Winton . Mrs. Erlynne Miss Marion Terry . Rosalie ( Maid ) Miss Winifred Dolan . FIRST ACT SCENE Morning-room of Lord Windermere’s house in Carlton House Terrace . Doors C. and R. Bureau with books and papers R. Sofa with small tea-table L. Window opening on to terrace L. Table R. [ Lady Windermere is at table R. , arranging roses in a blue bowl .] [ Enter Parker .] Parker . Is your ladyship at home this afternoon? Lady Windermere . Yes—who has called? Parker . Lord Darlington, my lady. Lady Windermere . [ Hesitates for a moment .] Show him up—and I’m at home to any one who calls. Parker . Yes, my lady. [ Exit C. ] Lady Windermere . It’s best for me to see him before to-night. I’m glad he’s come. [ Enter Parker C. ] Parker . Lord Darlington, [ Enter Lord Darlington C. ] [ Exit Parker .] Lord Darlington . How do you do, Lady Windermere? Lady Windermere . How do you do, Lord Darlington? No, I can’t shake hands with you. My hands are all wet with these roses. Aren’t they lovely? They came up from Selby this morning. Lord Darlington . They are quite perfect. [ Sees a fan lying on the table .] And what a wonderful fan! May I look at it? Lady Windermere . Do. Pretty, isn’t it! It’s got my name on it, and everything. I have only just seen it myself. It’s my husband’s birthday present to me. You know to-day is my birthday? Lord Darlington . No? Is it really? Lady Windermere . Yes, I’m of age to-day. Quite an important day in my life, isn’t it? That is why I am giving this party to-night. Do sit down. [ Still arranging flowers .] Lord Darlington . [ Sitting down .] I wish I had known it was your birthday, Lady Windermere. I would have covered the whole street in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on. They are made for you. [ A short pause .] Lady Windermere . Lord Darlington, you annoyed me last night at the Foreign Office. I am afraid you are going to annoy me again. Lord Darlington . I, Lady Windermere? [ Enter Parker and Footman C. , with tray and tea things .] Lady Windermere . Put it there, Parker. That will do. [ Wipes her hands with her pocket-handkerchief , goes to tea-table , and sits down .] Won’t you come over, Lord Darlington? [ Exit Parker C. ] Lord Darlington . [ Takes chair and goes across L.C. ] I am quite miserable, Lady Windermere. You must tell me what I did. [ Sits down at table L. ] Lady Windermere . Well, you kept paying me elaborate compliments the whole evening. Lord Darlington . [ Smiling .] Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay. Lady Windermere . [ Shaking her head .] No, I am talking very seriously. You mustn’t laugh, I am quite serious. I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean. Lord Darlington . Ah, but I did mean them. [ Takes tea which she offers him .] Lady Windermere . [ Gravely .] I hope not. I should be sorry to have to quarrel with you, Lord Darlington. I like you very much, you know that. But I shouldn’t like you at all if I thought you were what most other men are. Believe me, you are better than most other men, and I sometimes think you pretend to be worse. Lord Da