Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermeres' Fan as a Well-Made Work The tradition of the well-made work emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century. It was also called bien faite piece meaning "Drama of the Second Empire". It was supported mainly by the works of Eugene Scribe, Dumas, Emile Augier and Victorien Sardou. The tradition reaches its peak with Sardou's works in which the construction techniques invented by Scribe are fully used. The construction and set design are fully exploited rather than the characterization and ideas. In constructing the plot of a well-made play, one action ignites artificial complications that can easily be resolved with ingenious solutions. It is the stage where the hall or parlor has double doors at the side entrances. You begin with an exposition of the scene that details where the characters are in the scene. The problem in the play is revealed in its heart where there can be a sudden change. In the end, the play ends happily and pleasantly.1 As a well-known type of play, it predominated in French theater and later was dominant in European theater. The London stage was in many ways like an extension of the Parisian theater and flourished with plays of this kind, imitating, adapting and translating French drama.2 Furthermore, well-made drama was replaced in Romantic plays such as those of Shelley. Manfred of Cenci and Byron. Beyond this came the extravagant farces, crude melodramas, and stage plays that constituted the public entertainment of the people in the mid-19th century. It was better than the romance game and the other types as a well-organized and compact situation game. The very madman... in the center of the card... who: (Taking her husband's hand) Ah, you are about to marry a very good woman! (Lady Windermere's Fan, IV. 157) 'The Windermeres blossom into a new and harmonious intimacy'1. Lady Erlynne bids farewell to her daughter leaving her unaware of her true identity and begins a new life with Lord Augustus planning to go elsewhere to live together. Thus, everything becomes normal as at the beginning of the work which ends in a pleasant atmosphere. Bibliography: Wilde, Oscar (1951) Lady Windermere's Fan, London: Methuen, Vincent F. (1960) Lady Windermere's Oscar Wilde Fan, New York: Barron's Educational Series.