Plays by A. W. Pinero Rowell Paperback Cambridge University Press 9780521284400

Plays by A. W. PineroThe Schoolmistress, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the 'Wells', The Thunderbolt\nAuthor(s): George Rowell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521284400, 978-0521284400\nSynopsis\nThis volume contains four plays by the leading late Victorian and Edwardian playwright Arthur Wing Pinero [tel]. 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 [tel], one of the famous Court farces; The Second Mrs Tanqueray [tel], the best known of all the plays about 'a woman with a past'; Trelawny of the 'Wells' [tel], a much-loved backstage romance; and The Thunderbolt [tel], a pioneering social drama. Two of the plays (The S.