A Woman of No Importance

This article is about the Oscar Wilde play. For Alan Bennett's 1982 television play, see Talking Heads (series) § Episodes.
Not to be confused with A Man of No Importance.

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Act IV: Mrs Arbuthnot strikes Lord Illingworth

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London.[1] Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society. It has been revived from time to time since his death in 1900, but has been widely regarded as the least successful of his four drawing room plays.

  1. ^ Wilde (1966), p. 76