Lord Illingworth, of course, is a man of high distinction.

Well, you couldn’t come to a more charming place than this, Miss Worsley, though the house is excessively damp, quite unpardonably damp, and dear Lady Hunstanton is sometimes a little lax about the people she asks down here. What is the use of my always knitting mufflers for you if you won’t wear them? Ah! you must find it very draughty, I should fancy. They used to tell us at school that some of our states are as big as France and England put together. We have the largest country in the world, Lady Caroline. Have you any country? What we should call country? You have no country houses, I am told, in America? I believe this is the first English country house you have stayed at, Miss Worsley? Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton. Miss Hester Worsley, Miss Julia Neilson Alice, Maid, Miss Kelly

Lady Hunstanton, Miss Rose Leclercq Lady Caroline Pontefract, Miss Le Thiere Lady Stutfield, Miss Blanche Horlock The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours. 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.A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde Scanned and proofed by David Woman of No ImportanceĪCT I. Loyalty weighs heavier than ambition, and Gerald declines the association with Illingworth.

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. 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. 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. They are ideal for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students and are printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive introduction. New Mermaids are edited and updated by experienced teachers who are internationally recognised as authorities in their field. New Mermaids is a series of over sixty modernised and fully annotated classic plays, with an active program of new editions. NB: Orders that include this product may take up to one month to ship, based on availability.

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