# A Woman of No Importance prints a double standard that still centres the witty lord

Date: 1893

## The fact

In April 1893 A Woman of No Importance opened, a public play that names the sexual double standard while keeping the epigram-lord at the centre.

It is one event.

## Context

The play can be a rights brief and can still punch down. Medium confidence. Split Soul of Man as economics.

[Oscar Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica’s chronology and Gutenberg’s text independently date the 19 April 1893 Haymarket opening.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Oscar Wilde (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A double-standard comedy that still crowns the lord is a minority-rights limit of medium confidence.

1893 is not 1891’s socialist essay.

A double-standard comedy that still crowns the lord is a minority-rights limit of medium confidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1893 public opening. Not established: a unique custody-law coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Oscar Wilde.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

## People

- Oscar Wilde: https://factrail.ai/people/oscar-wilde

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Wilde

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-woman-no-importance-1893