TY - BOOK ID - 78149464 TI - A woman of no importance PY - 2013 SN - 1783946725 9781783946723 PB - [London, England] DB - UniCat KW - English drama. KW - Man-woman relationships. KW - Manners and customs. KW - Ceremonies KW - Customs, Social KW - Folkways KW - Social customs KW - Social life and customs KW - Traditions KW - Usages KW - Civilization KW - Ethnology KW - Etiquette KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Female-male relationships KW - Male-female relationships KW - Men KW - Men-women relationships KW - Relationships, Man-woman KW - Woman-man relationships KW - Women KW - Women-men relationships KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Mate selection KW - English literature KW - Relations with women KW - Relations with men UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78149464 AB - Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Dublin, then at Oxford. With his education complete Wilde moved to London and its fashionable cultural and social circles. With his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the most well-known personalities of his day. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 and he then moved on to writing for the stage with Salome in 1891. His society comedies produced enormous hits and turned him into one of the most successful writers of late Victorian London. Whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, was on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel. The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency. He was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. It was to break him. On release he left for France, There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six sipping champagne a friend had brought with the line 'Alas I am dying beyond my means'. Here we publish another of his classic plays 'A Woman Of No Importance' ER -