[Next Project] Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

[Marc Gimpel]

I was thinking of taking on another play, this time Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde.

Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/790

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ladywindermeresf00wildrich/page/n11/mode/2up

Would this be okay?

[Alex Cabal]

Sure, go for it. See The Importance of Being Earnest or any Shakespeare
to get an idea of what play formatting looks like.

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[Marc Gimpel]

I've started working on the play, here is the repository: https://github.com/mgimpel/oscar-wilde_lady-windermeres-fan.git

Following the example of "The Importance of Being Earnest", I created a the-scenes-of-the-play.xhtml page but I feel it is a bit confusing.

On that page in "The Importance of Being Earnest", the beginning is indeed a description of the scenes of the play:

Act I: Algernon Moncrieff’s Flat in Half-Moon Street, W.
Act II: The Garden at the Manor House, Woolton.
Act III: Drawing-Room at the Manor House, Woolton.
<hr/>
Time: The Present

But then follows what I suppose are details of the 1st showing of the play at the St. James’s Theatre in London

London: St. James’s Theatre
Lessee and Manager: Mr. George Alexander
February 14th, 1895

<hr/>

John Worthing, J. P.:         Mr. George Alexander.

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Do we want to include the details of the first representation?

And if so, is the Scenes of the Play the right page, or do we want to put this on a separate page?

[Alex Cabal]

No, don't include that.

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[Marc Gimpel]

Most of the work is done and I'm in the proofreading phase so my thought turned to the cover image.

I was thinking this painting by Berthe Morisot:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Berthe_Morisot_Jeune_fille_au_bal.jpg

Here's a reproduction in a book from 1925

https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot0000four/page/91/mode/1up

Which would give something like this:

Would this be okay?

[Alex Cabal]

Looks great, thanks!

On 3/14/22 12:55 PM, Marc Gimpel wrote:
> Most of the work is done and I'm in the proofreading phase so my thought
> turned to the cover image.
> I was thinking this painting by Berthe Morisot:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Berthe_Morisot_Jeune_fille_au_bal.jpg
> Here's a reproduction in a book from 1925
> https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot0000four/page/91/mode/1up
> Which would give something like this:

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[Marc Gimpel]

Small question about modernising spelling: I notices at several points in the play, the author uses the more archaic "Hallo" rather then "Hello".

Is this something that should be modernised?

I noticed that in "The Importance of Being Earnest", the spelling hasn't been modernised and is also "Hallo"  

[Alex Cabal]

You can leave that, it is not a sound-alike modernization

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[Marc Gimpel]

I think I'm just about done, it should be ready.

Here is the repository: https://github.com/mgimpel/oscar-wilde_lady-windermeres-fan.git

[Alex Cabal]

Great, everything looks good and I've gone ahead and released it.
Excellent work, thanks!

I see you probably copied the "scenes" styling and structure from
Earnest. That was the first play we ever did, so I went to look back on
it and made some changes to the "scenes" there to bring it more up to
speed with what we're doing now.

Let me know what you want to work on next!

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