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Snobbery and hypocrisy are also laid bare in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, while in SalomÃƒÂ© and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde uses historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. 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