Lady Lancing was the working title of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on February 14, 1895 at the St Lancing is near Shoreham-by-Sea on the Sussex coast. Lancing is a Village and Civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex, England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley Shoreham-by-Sea (shortened to Shoreham) is a small Town, Port and Seaside resort, also being the major settlement in the Adur District Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. The town was a popular seaside resort in the mid-19th century, gaining favour from the gentry of the time for its secluded atmosphere. A seaside resort is a Resort located on the Coast. Where a Beach is the primary focus for Tourists it may be called a beach resort Wilde was said to have accompanied newspaper seller Alphonse Conway on a walk to Lancing from Brighton, whereupon familiarities took place between the two men. Brighton ( is a town on the south coast of England and with its neighbour Hove, forms the city of Brighton and Hove. Wilde in no uncertain terms denied the allegations in the witness box. A witness box is part of a Court room. It is the section of the room set aside for witnesses to stand or sit in while giving their Testimony or presenting Evidence
However, regarding the title, it appears from trial evidence that Wilde's associations with young men, at times dressed in women's clothes, or engaged in the pretence of being a woman while sat upon his lap, may reflect the injoke of pet-names.
Respectability was a comic battlegound for Wilde. The common or garden laws that separate the sexes are constantly blurred in his largely matriarchal plays. In Earnest Lady Bracknell wields the full power of the family as Lady Caroline holds sway over the mollycuddled Sir John in A Woman of No Importance. A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish Playwright Oscar Wilde. The frisson of the free speaking, all-knowing dandy constantly energises Wilde's work. Several conclusions can be drawn here, most involve an autobiographical motive.
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- A Woman of No Importance, available at Project Gutenberg. Lancing is a Village and Civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex, England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works
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