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Arthur Wing Pinero

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Arthur Wing Pinero - "Mind The Paint" Girl

Another Pinero play from the early 1900s. With a social message about the effects of stardom on the star as well as those that love them. «I’m afraid there’s one thing finer than winning the woman you love and, when...

4 hours 20 minutes

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Benefit of the Doubt

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452

Arthur Wing Pinero - Benefit of the Doubt

The plot resolves around a young woman being cited in court as «The Other Woman» in a divorce case, and how her family reacts to it. Says her uncle: I shall go out; people shall see me walking boldly through the...

3 hours 46 minutes

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Gay Lord Quex

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505

Arthur Wing Pinero - Gay Lord Quex

Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intended. The play shows the difficulties in shaking a discreditable past — and how...

3 hours 31 minutes

Trelawny of the Wells

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523

Arthur Wing Pinero - Trelawny of the Wells

A theater, various actors and actresses, their admirers, financial backers, etc. The star Rose Trelawny wants to leave the stage for love, but it is not an easy thing to fit into conventional society after a life...

3 hours 27 minutes

Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

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535

Arthur Wing Pinero - Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that this is NOT a farce — the hypocrisy is not played for laughs. — Summary by...

3 hours 13 minutes

Cabinet Minister

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428

Arthur Wing Pinero - Cabinet Minister

Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exaggerates their sentiments and magnifies their foibles. In this light it is...

3 hours 4 minutes

Second Mrs. Tanqueray

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439

Arthur Wing Pinero - Second Mrs. Tanqueray

Aubrey Tanqueray marries a woman with a past which he believes will not matter in society. «I know you think me a fool, Cayley—you needn't infer that I'm a coward into the bargain. No! I know what I'm doing, and I do...

2 hours 54 minutes

Schoolmistress

Humorous Fiction

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Arthur Wing Pinero - Schoolmistress

The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: «Think of the deception I am practising upon dear Vere! Think of the people who...

2 hours 52 minutes

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Magistrate

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421

Arthur Wing Pinero - Magistrate

The success of “The Magistrate” was immediate, and the Court Theatre was crowded night after night for more than a year, the play being presented over 300 times. So prosperous was the run that there was no cessation...

2 hours 48 minutes

Dandy Dick

Humorous Fiction

429

Arthur Wing Pinero - Dandy Dick

“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic play,...

2 hours 43 minutes

Amazons: A Farcical Romance

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Arthur Wing Pinero - Amazons: A Farcical Romance

This 1895 farce inspired by the outlandish idea of women wearing pants, centers around the predicament of the three daughters of the eccentric Marchioness of Castlejordan, who determined to have sons, raised them like...

Malane 2 hours 40 minutes

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Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

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