Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Arthur Wing Pinero: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Second Mrs.Tanqueray:A Play in Four Acts
Appendix A: Pinero on Drama
- From T.H.L., “How I Construct My Plays: A Chat with Mr. Pinero,” Sketch (1893)
- Pinero, “The Modern British Drama,” Theatre (June 1895)
- From Pinero, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Dramatist (1903)
- From William Archer, Real Conversations (1904)
- From Pinero, “Robert Browning as a Dramatist,” Browning’s Centenary (1912)
- From Pinero, “Foreword,” Two Plays (1930)
Appendix B: The Second Mrs.Tanqueray, The Golden Butterfly, and the Albany
Appendix C: Social Background
- From Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)
- From the Divorce and Matrimonial Act (1857)
- From John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (1865)
- Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review (14 March 1868)
- From A. St. John Adcock, “Leaving the London Theatres,” Living London (1901)
- From Emily Constance Cook, “The London Season,” London and Environs (1897-98)
- “Police,” The Times (5 November 1895)
- “The Charge Against Mr. George Alexander,” The Times (6 November 1895)
- “School Teacher’s Suicide: Letters from a Married Man,” The Times (29 June 1920)
Appendix D: Contemporary Reactions to The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
- L.F.A., Illustrated London News (3 June 1893)
- William Archer,World (31 May 1893)
- Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (3 June 1893)
- Punch (10 June 1893)
- Saturday Review (3 June 1893)
- T.H.L., “A Chat with Mrs. Patrick Campbell,” Sketch (7 June 1893)
- From Yorkshire Post (22 September 1893)
- From T.W.M. Lund, The Second Mrs.Tanqueray: What? And Why? (1894)
- From Bernard Shaw, Saturday Review (23 February 1895)
- From H. Barton Baker, History of the London Stage and Its Famous Players (1576-1903) (1904)
Appendix E: Dramatic Techniques
- The Original Closing Scene to Pinero’s The Profligate (1889)
- The Performed Closing Scene of the First Production of The Profligate (1889)
- From Henry Arthur Jones, Act 4, The Liars (1897)
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