Plays by A. W. Pinero: The Schoolmistress, the Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the 'Wells', the Thunderbolt

by Arthur Wing Pinero

This volume contains four plays by the leading late Victorian and Edwardian playwright Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934). It provides a representative sample of the work of a writer who far outshone his rivals (including both Wilde and Shaw) in his own day, and inspired such successors as Somerset Maugham and Terence Rattigan in the genre of the 'wellmade play', and Ben Travers in the writing of farce. The plays are The Schoolmistress (1866), one of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521241030
• ISBN13: 9780521241038
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"