Wilde’s Profound Feminism In A Woman of No Importance.docVIP

Wilde’s Profound Feminism In A Woman of No Importance Ⅰ. Introduction Oscar Wilde is a well-known playwright in British drama history and A Woman of No Importance is one of his best comedies. A Woman of No Importance looks in particular at English upper-class society. It is a play with so many characters in it but the heart of story runs along with Lord Illingworth, a dandy, Mrs. Arbuthnot, his deserted lover and Gerald, their illegitimate son. Twenty years after Mrs. Arbuthnot’s being abandoned by Lord Illingworth, she finds that Illingworth is to become the potential employer of Gerald. The