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A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
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A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class society and has been reproduced on stages in Europe and North America. (Summary by Wikipedia)
A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class society and has been reproduced on stages in Europe and North America. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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LADY STUTFIELD. Every one I know says you are very, very wicked.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
LADY HUNSTANTON. Dear Lord Illingworth is quite hopeless, Lady Stutfield. I have given up trying to reform him. It would take a Public Company with a Board of Directors and a paid Secretary to do that. But you have the secretary already, Lord Illingworth, haven't you? Gerald Arbuthnot has told us of his good fortune; it is really most kind of you.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Oh, don't say that, Lady Hunstanton. Kind is a dreadful word. I took a great fancy to young Arbuthnot the moment I met him, and he'll be of considerable use to me in somethi. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I used to be an inveterate playgoer (one year, 1989 I think, I saw 52 plays).
The action and dialog on stage can be pretty quick. And if you're seeing a play that was written in another time for a different culture, that might be too quick to catch.
For example, the first line of Lady Windermere's Fan
"Prism, where is that baby?" demands the damndest dowager in theatre history in OWs farcical masterpiece. Feeling blue ? Reread this comedic milestone for the most preposterous merriment outside of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit," with a bow to WS Gilbert and Sheridan. Wilde found his playwrighting vo
This is definitely a classic worth reading. I did not like all plays the same, and my favourite by far is The Importance of Being Earnest. However, there is something witty in all of them, and in some Wilde is pretty ironic in his own very funny way. 5 out of 5 stars
Me ha parecido una comedia deliciosa que consigue la difícil tarea de que el lector se ría solo. Y no lo hace una vez, me pasé dos tardes de lectura riendo casi sin parar. Esto es muy complicado de conseguir cuando se lee teatro, ya que te falta la 'fisicalidad' y las expresiones del actor. Pero aqu
Unexpectedly hilarious! It was so surprising how much of the humor translated to current times. Delightfully fun.
I weirdly loved this. But I honestly went into it randomly with very low expectations.
I love witty sarcasm, and Oscar Wilde was chock full of it!
5 Stars
Es, sin duda, una obra divertida y llena de absurdos, como también, una clara crítica de la sociedad de su tiempo.
La obra está estructurada en tres actos, y fue estrenada en el teatro de St James en 1895. Poco a poco se van introduciendo los personajes, Jack, quien se ha inventado un hermano llamad
3.5 stars
I love Oscar Wilde so much and I’m so glad I finally ended up reading his most famous plays, they were so ironic and funny, I also adored the social satire he did. I’d love to see them on stage, it must be amazing.
The Importance of Being Earnest, 4/5 stars
Lady Windermere’s Fan, 4/5 stars
Sal
So hilarious!
There's this:
“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless."
"Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite c