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A Woman of No Importance

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A drawing-room drama exposing the double standard behind Victorian respectability.

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A Woman of No Importance

Wilde places a hidden past at the center of an elegant country-house society. A Woman of No Importance uses sparkling dialogue, social performance, and moral confrontation to question why men and women are judged by different rules.

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Oscar Wilde died in 1900, and A Woman of No Importance was first performed and published in 1893; the English source text is public domain.

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Lord Illingworth

Sir John Pontefract

Lord Alfred Rufford

Mr. Kelvil, M.P.

The Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D.

Gerald Arbuthnot

Farquhar, Butler

Francis, Footman

Lady Hunstanton

Lady Caroline Pontefract

Lady Stutfield

Mrs. Allonby

Miss Hester Worsley

Alice, Maid

Mrs. Arbuthnot

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
  3. 03THE SCENES OF THE PLAY
  4. 04Act I. The Terrace at Hunstanton Chase.
  5. 05Act II. The Drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase.
  6. 06Act III. The Hall at Hunstanton Chase.
  7. 07Act IV. Sitting-room in Mrs. Arbuthnot’s House at Wrockley.
  8. 08LONDON: HAYMARKET THEATRE
  9. 09FIRST ACT
  10. 10SCENE
  11. 11Act Drop.
  12. 12SECOND ACT
  13. 13Act Drop
  14. 14THIRD ACT
  15. 15FOURTH ACT

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