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A Woman of No Importance

By Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance book

A Woman of No Importance

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Staged in 1893, when Wilde had already achieved fame, wealth and notoriety, A Woman of No Importance was another attempt to fuse comedy of manners with high melodrama. Gerald Arbuthnot is a young man on the make, with an American heiress and the post of secretary to the brilliant but dissolute Lord Illingworth within his reach. When he asks his mother to celebrate with them, it turns out that Illingworth is Gerald's father, who seduced and abandoned his mother twenty years earlier. Loyalty weighs heavier than ambition, and Gerald declines the association with Illingworth. This edition, which also analyses Wilde's various drafts and revisions of the play, argues that the playwright here continued to explore the rivalry between an older man and woman for the affection of a beautiful young man.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2004-10-15
Publication Date:
2004-10-15
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0713673516
ISBN13:
9780713673517
Weight:
194 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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