"Tally-ho, in his 1893 play A Woman of No Importance, what activity did Oscar Wilde call ""the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable""?"
Fox hunting Hunt is such a working class club, founded in a small Welsh mining village, although its membership now is by no means limited to miners, with a more "cosmopolitan" make up. Oscar Wilde, in his play "A Woman of No Importance" (1893), once famously described "the English country gentleman galloping after a fox" as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." Even before the time of Wilde, much of the criticism of fox hunting was couched in terms of social class. The argument was that while more "working class" blood sports such as cock fighting and badger baiting were
A Woman of No Importance Jarvis. A Woman of No Importance A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirizes English upper-class society. It has been performed on stages in Europe and North America since his death in 1900. The play is set in "The Present" (i.e. 1893). The play opens with a party on a terrace in Lady Hunstanton's estate. The upper class guests spend the better part of Act I exchanging social gossip and small talk. Lady Caroline Pontrefact patronizes an