by Arthur Wing Pinero (Author), Stephen Unwin (Introduction by)
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 himin 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.
Author Biography
Born in 1855, Arthur Wing Pinero was an English actor, then playwright & director. He is considered by some to have been the leading playwright during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. His plays include The School Mistress, The Magistrate and Trelawny of the Wells. In 1909 he became the second ever man to be knighted for services to drama. He died in 1934.