The Importance of Being Oscar review – the life of Wilde, warts and all

Stephen Fry and Giles Brandreth are among the contributors to a docu-drama that, while mostly hagiography, does face up to the Irishman’s darker side

‘There was your error,” Sir Robert Chiltern tells Lady Chiltern in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. “The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals?”

You don’t have to be a woman to be affronted at Sir Robert’s misogyny, but it probably helps. Writing as a man who has, so far as I’m aware, never been put on a pedestal by any woman, this line of rhetorical questioning was quite the revelation.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2ICk5vh