Author: Arthur Wing PineroPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero: The second Mrs. Tanqueray. The notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Author: Arthur Wing PineroThe Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero: The second Mrs. Tanqueray. The notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Author: Sir Arthur Wing PineroThe Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero: The notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith
Author: Arthur Wing PineroPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero
Author: Arthur Wing PineroPublisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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The Second Mrs Tanqueray
Author: Arthur Wing PineroPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770482318
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was the theatrical sensation of the London stage in 1893. It established Pinero as the leading English dramatist of serious social issues, and created a star out of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the title role. The play recounts the marriage of a “woman with a past” and how it fails because of the double standard of morality applied unequally and hypocritically by Victorian society to men and women. This Broadview edition includes a thoroughly revised text based on the author’s manuscript, the prompt copy for the first production, and the published first edition; it also incorporates pertinent stage directions from the first production. The critical introduction examines all facets of the play and its production, and the appendices make accessible a wide variety of hard-to-find contemporary contextual materials related to the play.
Plays by A. W. Pinero
Author: Arthur Wing PineroPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521284400
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This volume contains four plays by the leading late Victorian and Edwardian playwright Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934). It provides a representative sample of the work of a writer who far outshone his rivals (including both Wilde and Shaw) in his own day, and inspired such successors as Somerset Maugham and Terence Rattigan in the genre of the 'wellmade play', and Ben Travers in the writing of farce. The plays are The Schoolmistress (1866), one of the famous Court farces; The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893), the best known of all the plays about 'a woman with a past'; Trelawny of the 'Wells' (1898), a much-loved backstage romance; and The Thunderbolt (1908), a pioneering social drama. Two of the plays (The Schoolmistress and The Thunderbolt), are not available in print elsewhere. This scholarly edition includes an introduction, a biographical account, a full list of Pinero's plays in performance and publication, and several important appendixes, including an alternative ending to The Schoolmistress and significant variants in the text of The Second Mrs Tanqueray.
Pinero: Three Plays
Author: Sir Arthur Wing PineroPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408149206
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Born within a year of both Shaw and Wilde, Pinero was one of the most popular - and prolific - playwrights of his age. This volume contains his three best - and still most often performed - plays, each written in a different mode: The Magistrate (1885), a splendid farce; The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893), a social problem play; and Trelawny of the 'Wells' (1898), an affectionate comedy on the inevitability of change.
English Drama of the Early Modern Period 1890-1940
Author: Jean ChothiaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315504197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier. Jean Chothia's study is in two parts beginning with a portrait of the period, setting the narrative context and considering the dramatic social and cultural changes at work during this time. It then focuses on some of the main themes in the theatre, from Shaw and comedy, to the rise of political and radio drama, providing an interpretative framework for the period. This volume will be of great benefit to students and academics of English literature and drama, as it covers the work of the major dramatists of the period as well as considering the dramatic output of literary figures, such as James, Eliot and Lawrence.
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