Woman of No Importance

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Mint Editions, Oscar Wilde: Woman of No Importance (2021, West Margin Press)

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2021 by West Margin Press.

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978-1-5132-7125-5
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4 stars (2 reviews)

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?

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I have not read all the plays by Wilde, but this is not as funny as others, although it is witty and highly critical of the british upper class. The play focus on the discrimination that women of the time had to endure while the men that brought their ruin were free to do as they wished. Some of its witty lines were later recycled in other plays, but the main plot takes a while to take off. I am glad the end of this one is as "fictional" as it gets: the good characters are given a happy ending.

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