He lives nearby and his mother is a friend of Lady Hunstanton. Another one of the guests is a young man of about twenty named Gerald Arbuthnot. Allonby whose personality is very similar to Lord Illingworth's. Those guests include a wealthy American heiress named Hester Worsley, the nobleman Lord Illingworth who has a reputation for being wicked and a woman known as Mrs. The majority of the characters in the play are guests of Lady Hunstanton who are joining her at her home for a series of festivities. Most of the action of A Woman of No Importance takes place at an English country house that is the home to an aristocratic woman known as Lady Jane Hunstanton. James's Theatre and its plot and themes are similar to those of the earlier play. A Woman of No Importance was commissioned as a direct result of the critical and commercial success of Wilde's 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan at London's St. It was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London's West End on April 19, 1893. It is a romantic comedy that satirizes the British upper classes. Promotional image for a 2015 London production of A Woman of No Importance.Ī Woman of No Importance is a play by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde.
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