-That is what marriage gives - the right to destroy years and years of life.- Venice, Easter 1895. In the cafes around St Mark's Square, all the gossip among the English ex-pat community is about two mysterious arrivals in the city. Agnes Ebbsmith is a young widow with a scandalous past. Travelling with her is Lucas Cleeve, an up-and-coming Tory MP who has abandoned his wife in London. Defying convention, Agnes and Lucas are refusing to marry, and living in a 'compact' together. But before long their peace is shattered by the arrival of Lucas's aristocratic family from London. The...
-That is what marriage gives - the right to destroy years and years of life.- Venice, Easter 1895. In the cafes around St Mark's Square, all the g...
When Aubrey Tanqueray marries for the second time, he knows that his new wife, Paula, is a woman with a past. But he has no idea how that past will catch up with him in the end. More probing than Oscar Wilde, more accessible than Ibsen, Pineros The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) is one of the masterpieces of the Victorian theatre: sexy, dramatic, funny and very moving.
When Aubrey Tanqueray marries for the second time, he knows that his new wife, Paula, is a woman with a past. But he has no idea how that past will ca...
