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'...
This volume contains four plays by the leading late Victorian and Edwardian playwright Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 1934). It provides a representative sa...
