The scene is set in an English country house â" Hunstanton (Lady Hunstanton's property). The curtains open to the terrace where we are introduced to Lady Caroline who is engaging in conversation with Lady Huntstanton's American Puritan guest Hester Worsley. Other characters are introduced, including the flirtatious Mrs Allonby, the meek Lady Stutfield and Lady Carolin...
The scene is set in an English country house â" Hunstanton (Lady Hunstanton's property). The curtains open to the terrace where we are introduced to Lady Caroline who is engaging in conversation with Lady Huntstanton's American Puritan guest Hester Worsley. Other characters are introduced, including the flirtatious Mrs Allonby, the meek Lady Stutfield and Lady Caroline's submissive husband Sir John. They discuss frivolous matters and are later joined by the powerful, charming and charismatic gentleman, Lord Illingworth who has offered the post of secretary to the fortunate Gerald Arbuthnot. Gerald's mother is invited to join the party, and when she arrives she realises that Lord Illingworth is Gerald's father. She had an affair with him twenty years ago, became pregnant and he refused to marry her, making her a "fallen woman." She is reluctant to let Gerald become Illingworth's secretary, but doesn't tell Gerald her reasons behind her reluctance...
ACT THREE
LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.
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If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!)
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
ACT TWO
HESTER: ...You rich people in England, you don't know how you are living. You shut out from you society the gentle and the good...Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season...You have lost your secret of life. Oh, your ... (查看原文)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second. (查看原文)
王尔德的语言带来一种活灵活现的场景: 英式贵族的优雅，高人一等的态度，说话慢条斯理，八卦嘴又毒。很奇妙的感觉。
广播剧特别棒，边听边读效果更好！
故事情节发展有点慢，第二幕接近末尾才进入主题。总觉得Miss Hester Worsley这个人物太板正了点，有点无趣了。
群戏部分金句不断。多数人物的三观其实挺诡辩的。喜欢英美差异的部分，讽刺又真实→_→。
结尾来了个大团圆，A man of no i...王尔德的语言带来一种活灵活现的场景: 英式贵族的优雅，高人一等的态度，说话慢条斯理，八卦嘴又毒。很奇妙的感觉。
广播剧特别棒，边听边读效果更好！
故事情节发展有点慢，第二幕接近末尾才进入主题。总觉得Miss Hester Worsley这个人物太板正了点，有点无趣了。
群戏部分金句不断。多数人物的三观其实挺诡辩的。喜欢英美差异的部分，讽刺又真实→_→。
结尾来了个大团圆，A man of no importance,点睛之笔，真解气啊。
反转来得太急，不禁联想起《灵魂摆渡》来，里面各种闹鬼啊都能圆到社会主义大方向上去，编剧也是不容易啊。(展开)
是 Oscar Wilde 的作品，http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde（作者维基） 戏剧作品，以对话的形式进行。整部剧一共有四场，第一场是女士们关于婚姻、男性的谈话，说到的是the woman of no importance，其中也提到了一个他们说很charming的男人- 男主 Lord Illingworth ...
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Gerald asks specific questions that give Lord Illingworth room to preach his scoundrel like philosophy through his answers, much like the inquiring Dorian Gray in the Picture of Dorian Gray. The interesting part starts only when Mrs. Arbuthnot appears to Lo...
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You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded. “你们英国对待妇女并不公平。除非你们认为对女人来说可耻的事，对男人来说一样可耻，否则，你们永远是不公平的。正确，是烈焰腾...
2021-03-03 11:331人喜欢
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second.
2021-02-21 09:171人喜欢
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second.
ACT THREE LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. ... If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!) ... Children begin by loving their parents. After a...
2013-01-27 17:441人喜欢
ACT THREE
LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.
...
If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!)
...
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
ACT TWO
HESTER: ...You rich people in England, you don't know how you are living. You shut out from you society the gentle and the good...Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season...You have lost your secret of life. Oh, your English society seems to me shallow, selfish, foolish... It sits like a dead thing smeared with gold...
(ACT FOUR) Hearts live by being wounded. Pleasure may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrow - oh sorrow, cannot break it.
...引自 ILLINGWORTH & HESTER
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up. the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. One should sympathise...
2012-11-21 17:281人喜欢
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
One should sympathise with the joy, the beauty, the colour of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a
king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
what you have to do at present is simply to fit yourself for the best society. A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.
the essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
No man has any real success in this world unless he has got women to back him, and women rule society.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
—there are many different kinds of women, aren't there?—Only two kinds in society: the plain and the coloured.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. But a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
the world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it!
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The world is simply divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible, like the public - and those who do the improbable
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up. the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. One should sympathise...
2012-11-21 17:281人喜欢
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
One should sympathise with the joy, the beauty, the colour of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a
king, and most people die in exile, like most kings.
what you have to do at present is simply to fit yourself for the best society. A man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.
the essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
No man has any real success in this world unless he has got women to back him, and women rule society.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
—there are many different kinds of women, aren't there?—Only two kinds in society: the plain and the coloured.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. But a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
the world has been made by fools that wise men should live in it!
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The world is simply divided into two classes - those who believe the incredible, like the public - and those who do the improbable
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded. “你们英国对待妇女并不公平。除非你们认为对女人来说可耻的事，对男人来说一样可耻，否则，你们永远是不公平的。正确，是烈焰腾...
2021-03-03 11:331人喜欢
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second.
2021-02-21 09:171人喜欢
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second.
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded. “你们英国对待妇女并不公平。除非你们认为对女人来说可耻的事，对男人来说一样可耻，否则，你们永远是不公平的。正确，是烈焰腾...
2021-03-03 11:331人喜欢
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second.
2021-02-21 09:171人喜欢
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As fas as civilisation goes they are in their second.
ACT THREE LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. ... If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!) ... Children begin by loving their parents. After a...
2013-01-27 17:441人喜欢
ACT THREE
LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things.
...
If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!)
...
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
ACT TWO
HESTER: ...You rich people in England, you don't know how you are living. You shut out from you society the gentle and the good...Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season...You have lost your secret of life. Oh, your English society seems to me shallow, selfish, foolish... It sits like a dead thing smeared with gold...
(ACT FOUR) Hearts live by being wounded. Pleasure may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrow - oh sorrow, cannot break it.
...引自 ILLINGWORTH & HESTER
童颜金刚
枪气如虹
做自己的Hilton
You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a shame in a woman to be infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded. “你们英国对待妇女并不公平。除非你们认为对女人来说可耻的事，对男人来说一样可耻，否则，你们永远是不公平的。正确，是烈焰腾...
ACT THREE LORD ILLINGWORTH: I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them, And that, consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. ... If you think of anything, you kill it. (!!!!!!) ... Children begin by loving their parents. After a...
The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up. the poorer classes of this country display a marked desire for a higher ethical standard. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. One should sympathise...
0 有用 Silence 2015-08-23
你不把别人当回事儿，别人也不会把你当回事儿～不光深入发掘了男女之间的冲突，还有母子之间，英美之间（这个才是真亮点啊！
0 有用 le petit chat 2010-10-21
very attractive dialogue which Wilde's always good at.
1 有用 Sherlock0726 2019-04-07
王尔德的语言带来一种活灵活现的场景: 英式贵族的优雅，高人一等的态度，说话慢条斯理，八卦嘴又毒。很奇妙的感觉。 广播剧特别棒，边听边读效果更好！ 故事情节发展有点慢，第二幕接近末尾才进入主题。总觉得Miss Hester Worsley这个人物太板正了点，有点无趣了。 群戏部分金句不断。多数人物的三观其实挺诡辩的。喜欢英美差异的部分，讽刺又真实→_→。 结尾来了个大团圆，A man of no i... 王尔德的语言带来一种活灵活现的场景: 英式贵族的优雅，高人一等的态度，说话慢条斯理，八卦嘴又毒。很奇妙的感觉。 广播剧特别棒，边听边读效果更好！ 故事情节发展有点慢，第二幕接近末尾才进入主题。总觉得Miss Hester Worsley这个人物太板正了点，有点无趣了。 群戏部分金句不断。多数人物的三观其实挺诡辩的。喜欢英美差异的部分，讽刺又真实→_→。 结尾来了个大团圆，A man of no importance,点睛之笔，真解气啊。 反转来得太急，不禁联想起《灵魂摆渡》来，里面各种闹鬼啊都能圆到社会主义大方向上去，编剧也是不容易啊。 (展开)
2 有用 拉维克 2016-03-15
前半部分要比王尔德其它剧更辛辣，更深刻，更好笑，但后半部分又过分煽情认真，两者不很调和，最后一幕读得尴尬癌都要犯了，王尔德还是太喜欢讨好（女性）观众了。
0 有用 缪缪MMutee 2016-02-15
第一次读王尔德的作品..
0 有用 morrow 2021-01-17
薄荷阅读精编版。这次的主角都不那么风流倜傥，而是一本正经的清教徒了，而且王尔德没在他们身上开任何玩笑。前三本是觉得他聪明、可爱，但这本有全新的视角，让我开始尊敬他了，也许只有同性恋群体才能跨越男女间的隔阂，对两种性别心理上的骄傲和委屈都真正理解到吧。
0 有用 talk2soon 2021-01-01
狼的孩子学英语
0 有用 刘胜永 2020-12-25
善恶分明，宁折不屈，出淤泥而不染，濯清涟而不妖。尽管身份卑微，但黑白分明。做人，活的就是一口气。
0 有用 竹笋烧肉没有肉 2020-12-11
狗血爽文类型哈哈哈，美国小姐需要有个人跟她一起承受有钱人的压力，没想到能在王尔德的作品里看到😂父亲抛弃伴侣孩子几十年完全没有悔意，孩子长大成人后却有足够厚的脸皮想要重新得到孩子，想得真美呀。
0 有用 samsaranoose 2020-10-20
王老师的戏剧里目前最不喜欢的一本