The Second Mrs. Tanqueray: A Play In Four Acts - Softcover

Pinero, Arthur W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517124859 ISBN 13: 9781517124854

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517124859
• ISBN 13: 9781517124854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128