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The Constant Wife
Written by
W. Somerset Maugham
Characters
Mrs. Culver Bentley Martha Culver Barbara Fawcett Constance Middleton Marie-Louise Durham John Middleton FRCS Bernard Kersal Mortimer Durham
Date premiered
November 1, 1926 (1926-11-01)
Place premiered
Ohio Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio
Original language
English
Genre
comedy of manners
Setting
A house in Harley Street, 1920s
The Constant Wife, a play written in 1926 by W. Somerset Maugham, is a comedy whose modern and amusing take on marriage and infidelity gives a quick-witted, alternative view on how to deal with an extramarital affair.[1]
A “sparkling comedy of ill manners”,[2]The Constant Wife features the resourceful and charming Constance Middleton, who has long known that her husband had been having an affair with her best friend, Marie-Louise. When the affair is publicly acknowledged, rather than reprimanding or divorcing him, she embraces the opportunity to create an independent life, starting a new job, paying her husband for room and board, and taking on her own lover.
The Constant Wife was later published for general sale in April 1927.[3]
The Constant Wife was most recently on Broadway in 2005, where Variety described it as "an antecedent to the women of Sex and the City”.[4] The production's Kate Burton (Constance) and Lynn Redgrave (her mother) were nominated for Tony Awards.
^"The Constant Wife". Retrieved 11 November 2018.
^Barnes, Clive (17 June 2005). "'Constant': It's a Wonderful 'Wife'". New York Post. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
^Rogal, Samuel J. (1997). A William Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. xv. ISBN 0-313-29916-1.
^Rooney, David. "The Constant Wife". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
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