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A Woman of No Importance, Paperback / softback Book

A Woman of No Importance Paperback / softback

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A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde.

The play premiered on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre.

Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper-class society.

It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900.

The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate.

The upper class guests spend the better part of Act I exchanging social gossip and small talk.

Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an American visitor, Hester Worsley, and proceeds to give her own opinion of everyone in the room (and her surrounding life).

Lady Caroline also denounces Hester's enthusiasm for Gerald Arbuthnot until Gerald himself enters to proclaim that Lord Illingworth, a powerful, flirtatious male political figure, intends to take him under his wing as secretary.

This is great news for Gerald, as being Lord Illingworth's secretary would be the young man's first step to a life of financial/political success.

The guests then discuss the rumors surrounding Lord Illingworth's aim for being a foreign ambassador, while Lady Hunstanton sends a letter through her footman to Gerald's mother, inviting her to the party.

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