The Second Mrs Tanqueray

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) was the leading playwrightof the Victorian theatre. His plays include The Schoolmistress(1886), Dandy Dick (1887), Sweet Lavender (1888), TheNotorious Mrs. Ebbsmith (1895), Trelawny of the 'Wells' (1898),The Gay Lord Quex (1899), Iris (1901), and Mid-Channel (1909). Klappentext 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 himin the end. More probing than Oscar Wilde, more accessible than Ibsen, Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) is one of the masterpieces of the Victorian theatre: sexy, dramatic, funny and very moving. Zusammenfassung Arthur W.Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray was the greatest commercial success of the Victorian theatre. The Daily Telegraph described this theatrical treasure as the play 'that changed British theatre forever'.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Wing Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2012
• EAN: 9781849433921
• ISBN: 978-1-84943-392-1
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Oberon Modern Plays; Oberon Modern Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies