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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.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. [3]
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A Woman of No Importance is an 1893 play by Oscar Wilde. A Woman of No Importance may also refer to: A Woman of No Importance (1921 film), a British drama film, based on the Oscar Wilde play; A Woman of No Importance (1936 film), a German drama film, based on the Oscar Wilde play
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A Woman of No Importance (French: Une femme sans importance) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Jean Choux and starring Pierre Blanchar, Lisette Lanvin and Marguerite Templey. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1893 play A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Krauss.
This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and journalism.
In June 1893, with his second drawing room play, A Woman of No Importance, running successfully at the Haymarket Theatre, Oscar Wilde began writing An Ideal Husband for the actor-manager John Hare. He completed the first act while staying at a house he had taken in Goring-by-Sea, after which he named a leading character in the play. [1]