Arthur Wing Pinero
Trelawny of the Wells
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A theater, various actors and actresses, their admirers, financial backers, etc. The star Rose Trelawny wants to leave the stage for love, b…
The Squire
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Arthur Wing Pinero
"Then take a word of advice—cut yourself adrift from Squire Kate's apron strings. (Gilbert turns away) When my father, John Verity, die…
The Times
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Percy Egerton-Bompas, M.P., and Mrs Bompas have secrets in their family. Which promise grave difficulties as they try to marry off their dau…
Letty
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Letty is another one of Pinero's Social Plays, exposing the double standard of woman's reputations suffering for actions that in men were no…
The Enchanted Cottage
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A play written late in Pinero's career that shows he still knew how to reach his audience. A wounded WW1 veteran discovers that love truly c…
His House in Order
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"A well-meaning second wife is made miserable by the fact that she is continually compared, to her disadvantage, with her predecessor. …
Lady Bountiful
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"The story of "Lady Bountiful" is, I venture to think, human and interesting enough to offer possibilities to the novelist; w…
The Big Drum
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Another Pinero play. Biting satire this time, ironic comedy - not a farce. The Big Drum, a novel being written by Phil, one of the main char…
The Profligate
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'Mr. Pinero, in essaying to deal dramatically with a moral problem in a manner which, while neither cynical nor commonplace, should still be…
The Beauty Stone
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Joseph Comyns Carr and Arthur Wing Pinero
Not your usual Pinero play. Gilbert and Sullivan had stopped collaborating, and so Pinero - at the height of his very successful career - an…
Mid-Channel
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The marriage of Theodore and Zoe Blundell is not going well, but before divorcing they consider a trial separation. Will they get back toget…
The Thunderbolt
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Called "An episode in the history of a provincial family", where "their faults of manner and breeding are precisely the fault…