Mind your manners

The Spectator | April 24, 1999| | Copyright

I didn't check the credits, but the script editor on An Ideal Husband would seem to be Lady Helena of the Kennedys, or Baroness Shaw of Everything, or Helena The People's Peeress, or however she's styling herself this lunchtime.

When Oscar Wilde's play was first staged in 1895, its dramatis personae included `Lord Goring' and `Lady Chiltern'. A century later, in Oliver Parker's film adaptation, the characters have undergone a Shavian metamorphosis (that's Shavian as in Helena of that ilk, not George Bernard): Lady Chiltern is sometimes `Lady Chiltern' and sometimes `Lady Gertrude'; Lord ...

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