The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde's  An Ideal Husband  explores corruption and morality, bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. Ambitious government minister Sir Robert Chiltern seems assured of a smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his past financial chicanery. An Ideal Husband  was first staged at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in 1895. This edition of  An Ideal Husband  in the Nick Hern Books  Drama Classics  series is edited and introduced by Laurie Wolf.