Author: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Publisher: 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.
Pinero: Three Plays
Author: Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Plays by A. W. Pinero
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Schoolmistress
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
When, during the season of 1885, the exceptional success of "The Magistrate" had revived the fortunes of the Court Theatre and included that house once again among the popular places of entertainment, the future policy of Messrs. John Clayton and Arthur Cecil's management was practically determined. The essentially comic play, the farce of character and manners, was henceforth to compose the programme, and Mr. Pinero, who had suggested the new policy, and so happily inaugurated it, was naturally commissioned to provide the next play. "The Schoolmistress" was accordingly forthcoming in due time, and in the composition of this piece the author further developed his ideas as to the scope and meaning of modern farce, ideas which will be found briefly expounded in my introductory note to "The Cabinet Minister," published in the present series of Mr. Pinero's plays. "The Schoolmistress" has a very simple stage-history. It was produced at the old Court Theatre on March 27, 1886, and it immediately caught the laughter and applause of the town, the success being so decided that the play retained its place in the programme until January 22, 1887, the total number of performances in the interval having amounted to 290.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
When, during the season of 1885, the exceptional success of "The Magistrate" had revived the fortunes of the Court Theatre and included that house once again among the popular places of entertainment, the future policy of Messrs. John Clayton and Arthur Cecil's management was practically determined. The essentially comic play, the farce of character and manners, was henceforth to compose the programme, and Mr. Pinero, who had suggested the new policy, and so happily inaugurated it, was naturally commissioned to provide the next play. "The Schoolmistress" was accordingly forthcoming in due time, and in the composition of this piece the author further developed his ideas as to the scope and meaning of modern farce, ideas which will be found briefly expounded in my introductory note to "The Cabinet Minister," published in the present series of Mr. Pinero's plays. "The Schoolmistress" has a very simple stage-history. It was produced at the old Court Theatre on March 27, 1886, and it immediately caught the laughter and applause of the town, the success being so decided that the play retained its place in the programme until January 22, 1887, the total number of performances in the interval having amounted to 290.
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795364
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.
The Classical Monologue
Author: Michael Earley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780413666703
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780413666703
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Plays of the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Past Redemption
Author: George Melville Baker
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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