I suppose if God allows people like wokes exist in this world it means they are necessary, too. An Ideal Husband (1895) is the third of Oscar Wildes society comedies after Lady Windermeres Fan (1892) and A Woman of No Importance (1893). Garnished with Wildes inimitable witty one liners, the play combines an airy lightness with a solid underpinning of thought provoking ideas. And mind you, they would be right, for once. The caterwauling from the woke contingency would be louder than the Final Trumpet. Imagine if a white actor were cast to play a famous black person. A sick form of reverse colonialism, if you will. Personally, I think it's condescending and self-congratulating. Their obsession with diversity and political correctness has reached a degree of stupidity that is excessive even by woke standards. I don't know what white wokes - pardon the redundancy - think they achieve by all this diverse silliness. After all, we all know that in Victorian England a good number of British aristocrats were of pure African extraction. An Ideal Husband study guide contains a biography of Oscar Wilde, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. In this version of An Ideal Husband, Lady Mabel Chiltern, Lord Chiltern's sister, is played by a black actress - curiously enough, Lord Chiltern is played by a white guy - And in another modern production of Lady Windemere's Fan - presumably by the same company - a certain Lord Lorton is also played by a black actor.
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