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The Second Mrs. Tanqueray is a problem play by Arthur Wing Pinero. It utilises the "Woman with a past" plot, popular in nineteenth century melodrama.
Oct 9, 2012 · By contrast, the melodrama feels a stiffly engineered affair in which virginal purity falls for a figure from Paula's murky past, allowing the play to precipitate a suicide that seems as much a...
In The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Aubrey Tanqueray shocks society when he marries Paula, a woman with a scandalous reputation.
Oct 10, 2012 · While this is purely Pinero’s doing, director Stephen Unwin has actress Rona Morison repeat her final line over and over, thus underlining the melodrama that already threatens to destabilise the scathing play preceding it.
Jan 16, 2013 · It’s a social melodrama, a soap opera in other words, and a very dated one. Mrs. Tanqueray has a past which catches up with her: she has been the mistress of one of her husband’s old friends. Just as she has made friends with her husband’s daughter (a moral snob), the old friend shows up.
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray is one of the best examples in theatrical history of a play whose production was timely. Had it been written a few years earlier, it is doubtful that it would have...
May 1, 2024 · Arthur Pinero wrote The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1893 after penning several successful farces. Playing on the “woman with a past” plot that was popular in melodramas, Pinero steered it in a more serious direction, centering the play around the social consequences arising when Aubrey Tanqueray remarries in an attempt to redeem a woman with a ...
