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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.
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
There are two series of Talking Heads, six monologues in each, along with an earlier (1982) play, A Woman of No Importance, which, while not released alongside Talking Heads, generally fits into the canon. Although the plays deal with a variety of subjects, there are certain recurring themes, such as death, illness, guilt and isolation. All of ...
Riding horses, donkeys or mules, on foot or by rowboat, [1] the librarians — various known as "book women", "book ladies" or "packsaddle librarians" — would follow long, mountainous routes, riding hundreds of miles each week in difficult weather and trail conditions, in dozens of rural counties where there were no libraries at all. [2]
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater.
This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. This article was the subject of an educational assignment in Fall 2014. Further details were available on the "Education Program:New College of Florida/Twentieth-Century British and American Drama: Realism and its Discontents (Fall 2014)" page, which is now ...
The Woman on Platform 8 is a short story written by Indian author Ruskin Bond. [1] [2] It is narrated in first person by a schoolboy named Arun, and recounts an encounter with a mysterious woman in a train station. [3] The story was first published in The Illustrated Weekly of India between 1955 and 1958. [4]
A Woman of No Importance (German: Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung) is a 1936 German drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Gustaf Gründgens, Käthe Dorsch and Friedrich Kayßler. It is based on Oscar Wilde's play A Woman of No Importance. [1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin.