A woman of no importance purnell6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Wilde worked on it while staying in Norfolk in the summer, and later in a rented flat in St James's, impeded by constant interruptions by Lord Alfred Douglas. He briefly moved away from the genre to write his biblical tragedy Salome, after which he accepted a request from the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree for a new play for Tree's company at the Haymarket Theatre. ![]() Wilde's first West End drawing room play, Lady Windermere's Fan, ran at the St James's Theatre for 197 performances in 1892. ![]() 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. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society. Act IV: Mrs Arbuthnot strikes Lord IllingworthĪ 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. ![]()
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