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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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