A Woman of No Importance is a play by Oscar Wilde which became a phenomenon of its time. Like
Wilde's other society plays A Woman of No Importance satirizes the English upper-class
society. The plot centers around the revelation of Mrs. Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. As
the events develop the author casts light on the perversions in Victorian upper-class
society's morals hypocritical conventions and general views and conduct.
