Associated Resources
- Part 1 - AWONI Teaching Guide.doc
- Part 2 - AWONI Annotated Guide.doc
- Part 3 - AWONI Teaching Guide.doc
Why you might like to teach this text!
A Woman of No Importance is a wonderful text to teach and your students will enjoy studying it.
It is short, it has an absorbing and convincing plot and its themes are easily recognised, interestingly explored and persuasively presented.
On top of this, Wilde is a fine and witty dramatist who uses his chosen form in fascinating ways not only, at the level of plot, to entertain but also, thematically, to explore in very persuasive ways, key aspects of late Victorian life that students still find of interest and relevance.
Perhaps one reason why the text has not been taught regularly by teachers is because there is a dearth of suitable teaching materials, guides and resources available for it. This three-part guide sets out to help rectify this by offering you detailed and accessible study materials, along with sources of further help and suggested teaching ideas.
We hope you find it helpful and useful – and above all else, we hope it saves you that precious thing that English teachers have so little of – time.
This EnglishEdu teacher’s guide to Oscar Wilde’s play ‘A Woman of No Importance’ is in three parts:
Part 1 (this section): A Teacher’s Guide
The first...
