Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.Lady Markby in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
Oscar Wilde, who tried to set quite a few fashions himself, might have been amused to know that last week Moscow took the same disapproving view of him and his works as his most disapproving Victorian contemporaries ever did. For stooping to put on a brilliant performance of his entertaining An Ideal Husband, the famed Moscow Art Theater shivered under simultaneous critical broadsides from the 16-inch guns of Izvestia and Pravda.
The trouble lay in the comedy's innocence of ideology....
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