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Comedy
Arthur W. Pinero
Characters: 10 male, 8 female
4 interior scenes
Actress Rose Trelawny falls in love with the grandson of a
snobbish knight. Unfortunately her visit to her lover's home is a
humiliating failure and she finds she can no longer act. But the
elderly tyrant relents, unexpectedly developing an interest in the
theatre; he even finances a play and finally gives his blessing to
Rose and his grandson
FEE: Public domain.
The Magistrate is a farce by the English playwright Sir Arthur Wing
Pinero. The plot concerns a respectable magistrate who finds
himself caught up in a series of scandalous events that almost
cause his disgrace. The first production opened at the Court
Theatre in London on 21 March 1885.
When Aubrey Tanqueray marries for the second time, he knows that
his new wife, Paula, is a 'woman with a past'. But he has no idea
how that past will catch up with him in the end. More probing than
Oscar Wilde, more accessible than Ibsen, Pinero's The Second Mrs
Tanqueray (1893) is one of the masterpieces of the Victorian
theatre: sexy, dramatic, funny and very moving.-6 women, 5 men
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The Magistrate (Hardcover)
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
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Born in 1855 and put to work in the family law business at the age of ten, Arthur Wing Pinero deserted middle-class respectability to become an actor. He learnt his trade in the old provincial stock system before he joined Henry Irving's company at the Lyceum, and began to write plays that were to change the face of British theatre.;In 1893 The Second Mrs Tanqueray was acclaimed across Europe as the most remarkable English play of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Magistrate is now recognized as the foundation stone of British comedy. George Bernard Shaw's envious personal campaign against him helped to undermine Pinero's pre-eminence, but today his work is emerging from neglect as fresh and interesting as it ever was - and a great deal more stageworthy than much that was written by Shaw. These four plays represent a unique dramatic voice, stringent and incisive, whose insights are clothed in exuberant, energetic, and many-sided theatricality.;This book is intended for students from sixth-form upwards, studying Theatre Studies and Literature/Drama of the nineteenth century.
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