The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Paperback / softback Book

The Second Mrs Tanqueray Paperback / softback

Edited by J.P. Wearing

Part of the Broadview Editions series

Paperback / softback

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The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was the theatrical sensation of the London stage in 1893.

It established Pinero as the leading English dramatist of serious social issues, and created a star out of Mrs. Patrick Campbell in the title role. The play recounts the marriage of a "woman with a past" and how it fails because of the double standard of morality applied unequally and hypocritically by Victorian society to men and women. This Broadview edition includes a thoroughly revised text based on the author's manuscript, the prompt copy for the first production, and the published first edition; it also incorporates pertinent stage directions from the first production.

The critical introduction examines all facets of the play and its production, and the appendices make accessible a wide variety of hard-to-find contemporary contextual materials related to the play.

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