Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

A woman of no importance

Label
A woman of no importance
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
A woman of no importance
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Audio theatre collection
Summary
The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate. The upper class guests exchange social gossip and small talk. Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an American visitor, Hester Worsley, and proceeds to give her own opinion on everyone in the room and her surrounding life. Lady Caroline also denounces Hester's enthusiasm for Gerald Arbuthnot until Gerald himself enters to proclaim that Lord Illingworth, a powerful, flirtatious male political figure intends to take him under his wing as secretary
Target audience
adult
Classification
Content