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A Woman of No Importance ▾
contents
  1. Dramatis Personae
  2. Act I
  3. Act II
  4. Act III
  5. Act IV
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A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

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To
Gladys
Countess de Grey
(Marchioness of Ripon)

Dramatis Personae

  • Lord Illingworth

  • Sir John Pontefract

  • Lord Alfred Rufford

  • Mr. Kelvil, M.P.

  • The Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D.

  • Gerald Arbuthnot

  • Farquhar, butler

  • Francis, footman

  • Lady Hunstanton

  • Lady Caroline Pontefract

  • Lady Stutfield

  • Mrs. Allonby

  • Miss Hester Worsley

  • Alice, maid

  • Mrs. Arbuthnot

The Scenes of the Play

Act I: The terrace at Hunstanton Chase.

Act II: The drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase.

Act III: The hall at Hunstanton Chase.

Act IV: Sitting-room in Mrs. Arbuthnot’s house at Wrockley.

Time: The present.

Place: The Shires.

The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours.

Act I

Scene: Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton.

restoring your place…

fetching the rest…

More by Oscar Wilde

  • An Ideal Husband
    You get Wilde at his sharpest in the drawing-room sparring between Lord Goring and the dangerously composed Mrs Cheveley, while Sir Robert Chiltern’s spotless public image starts to crack. It’s funny, fast, and more forgiving about human weakness than its polished manners initially suggest.
  • Children’s Stories
    Fair warning: these fairy tales will wreck you a little. The swallow staying with the Happy Prince through the frost, the giant's garden thawing when the children sneak back in, it's all gorgeous and melancholy at once, sadder and stranger than anything you'd actually read to a kid.
  • Lady Windermere’s Fan
    You can read it in an evening, and half the fun is watching Wilde hand every character a line too clever to waste. But Mrs. Erlynne sneaks up on you; under all the epigrams about cynics and gutters there's a real ache about who gets forgiven.

genres

  • Romance

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A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

Narrated by Elizabeth Klett, mb, Ernst Pattynama, TriciaG, Martin Geeson, Barry Eads, Susanna, Bob Gonzalez, Nigel Boydell, Delmar H Dolbier, rashada, bish, Beth Thomas (1974-2020), David Lawrence, Arielle Lipshaw, and Bev J Stevens for LibriVox, also public domain.

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