A Woman of No Importance - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420925946 ISBN 13: 9781420925944

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2005

Synopsis

"A Woman of No Importance" is Oscar Wilde's classic comedic play. The woman of no importance is Mrs. Arbuthnot, a woman who has been scorned by society for having an illicit affair and conceiving a child out of wedlock. "A Woman of No Importance" is both a criticism of the shameful double standard applied to men and women in such matters and a biting satire of the hypocrisy of the upper classes in Victorian Society.

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Review:

Classic Wilde in many respects: a comic melodrama populated by a combination of stuffy society types and devil-may-care Wildean stand-ins whose quips and paradoxical epigrams cut through the delusions and hypocrisies of their milieu. --Irish Theatre Magazine

About the Author:

Known for his barbed wit, Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful late-Victorian playwrights and a great celebrity. The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray are among his best known works. He is perhaps most famous for his trial, in which he eloquently defended homosexual love and was sentenced to two years of hard labor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420925946
• ISBN 13: 9781420925944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84