A woman of no importance
(2015)
Nonfiction
eBook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781911144786 (electronic bk.) MWT11620154, 1911144782 (electronic bk.) 11620154
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
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Rosalind Ayres, Jane Carr, Peter Dennis, Judy Geeson, Paul Gutrecht, Martin Jarvis, Cherie Lunghi, Robert Machray, Miriam Margolyes, Samantha Mathis, Jim Norton
The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate. The upper class guests exchange social gossip and small talk. Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an American visitor, Hester Worsley, and proceeds to give her own opinion on everyone in the room and her surrounding life. Lady Caroline also denounces Hester's enthusiasm for Gerald Arbuthnot until Gerald himself enters to proclaim that Lord Illingworth, a powerful, flirtatious male political figure intends to take him under his wing as secretary
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