The Second Mrs. Tanqueray - Softcover
First performed at the St James's Theatre in 1893, the theme of the play is "the woman with a past" which was popular in 19th century melodrama.
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About the Author:
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.
J.P. Wearing is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of The Collected Letters of Sir Arthur Pinero (1974) and has published widely on nineteenth-century drama.
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- PublisherEcho Library
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1406803766
- ISBN 13 9781406803761
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages100
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