A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE A PLAY BY OSCAR WILDE * * * * * METHUEN & CO., LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _Eighth Edition_ * * * * * _First Printed_ _1894_ _First Issued by Methuen and Co._ (_Limited _February_ _1908_ Editions on Handmade Paper and Japanese Vellum_) _Third Edition_ _September_ _1909_ _Fourth Edition_ _May_ _1910_ _Fifth Edition_ _December_ _1911_ _Sixth Edition_ _March_ _1913_ _Seventh Edition_ (_Cheap Form_) _October_ _1916_ _Eighth Edition_ _1919_ _The dramatic rights of_ ‘_A Woman of No Importance_’ _belong to Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and to Robert Ross_, _executor and administrator of Oscar Wilde’s estate_. * * * * * TO GLADYS COUNTESS DE GREY [MARCHIONESS OF RIPON] * * * * * THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY LORD ILLINGWORTH SIR JOHN PONTEFRACT LORD ALFRED RUFFORD MR. KELVIL, M.P. THE VEN. ARCHDEACON DAUBENY, D.D. GERALD ARBUTHNOT FARQUHAR, Butler FRANCIS, Footman * * * * * LADY HUNSTANTON LADY CAROLINE PONTEFRACT LADY STUTFIELD MRS. ALLONBY MISS HESTER WORSLEY ALICE, Maid MRS. ARBUTHNOT THE SCENES OF THE PLAY ACT I. _The Terrace at Hunstanton Chase_. ACT II. _The Drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase_. ACT III. _The Hall at Hunstanton Chase_. ACT IV. _Sitting-room in Mrs. Arbuthnot’s House at Wrockley_. TIME: _The Present_. PLACE: _The Shires_. _The action of the play takes place within twenty-four hours_. LONDON: HAYMARKET THEATRE _Lessee and Manager_: _Mr. H Beerbohm Tree_ _April_ 19_th_, 1893