Arthur Wing Pinero (1855–1934)
Auteur de The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
A propos de l'auteur
Arthur Wing Pinero, a former actor, remained a shrewd judge of theatrical taste. After a period of writing comedies and farces (Dandy Dick, in 1887, among the best), in the 1890s Pinero fastened on London's newly aroused interest in social-problem plays. But, instead of following the difficult afficher plus example of Ibsen whose plays were just then beginning to be produced in English translations, Pinero turned to the French playwrights of an earlier generation. The demimondaine of Guillaume Augier and Alexandre Dumas became, in plays like The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893), the "woman with a past." The inevitable (and inevitably effective) theatrical business of recognition and confession led to acts of renunciation in Mrs. Tanqueray's case, suicide, which permitted characters and audiences to escape the moral problems that had been posed for them. Pinero's one lasting achievement is not a problem play at all, but the affectionate homage of a theater man to an earlier era of the London stage. Trelawney of the "Wells" (1898) has had successful modern productions at London's National Theatre and New York's Lincoln Center. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Œuvres de Arthur Wing Pinero
Plays by A. W. Pinero: The Schoolmistress, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the 'Wells', The Thunderbolt… (1986) 4 exemplaires
Two plays 2 exemplaires
The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray/The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith 2 exemplaires
The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero: vol. 1, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray; The NOtorious Mrs. Ebbsmith; vol. 2: The Gay… (1918) 1 exemplaire
The cabinet minister : a farce in four acts 1 exemplaire
The Cabinet Minister (Oberon Classics) 1 exemplaire
The iron master 1 exemplaire
Dr. Harmer's Holidays 1 exemplaire
Child Man 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing
- Date de naissance
- 1855-05-24
- Date de décès
- 1934-11-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- actor
playwright - Prix et distinctions
- Knighthood (1909)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 32
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 220
- Popularité
- #101,715
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 57