Staged in 1893, when Wilde had already achieved fame, wealth and
notoriety, A Woman of No Importance was another attempt to fuse
comedy of manners with high melodrama. Gerald Arbuthnot is a young
man on the make, with an American heiress and the post of secretary
to the brilliant but dissolute Lord Illingworth within his reach.
When he asks his mother to celebrate with them, it turns out that
Illingworth is Gerald's father, who seduced and abandoned his
mother twenty years earlier. Loyalty weighs heavier than ambition,
and Gerald declines the association with Illingworth. This edition,
which also analyses Wilde's various drafts and revisions of the
play, argues that the playwright here continued to explore the
rivalry between an older man and woman for the affection of a
beautiful young man.
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