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Pinero, Arthur Wing,--Sir,--1855-1934, Dramatists, English--20th century--Biography.
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1993
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Pinero, Arthur Wing,--Sir,--1855-1934, Dramatists, English--20th century--Biography.
Pinero
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A.J. Munnings, Royal Academy, menu cover portrait of Sir Arthur Pinero
(E. T. Archive photograph, by permission of the Garrick Club)
Page iii
Pinero
A Theatrical Life
by John Dawick
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1993 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
Cover: Phil May, sketch of Pinero (Cassell's Magazine, 1899)
ISBN: 0-87081-302-1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984
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To George Rowell and Peter Wearing
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements
xiii
Prologue
The Drama of Respectability
xvii
Act 1: Preparation (1855-1881)
1. Outside the Garrick Club
3
2. "General Utility"
22
3. A "Walking Gentleman"
39
4. Irving and Authorship
53
5. A Difficult Courtship
67
Act 2: Development (1881-1891)
6. The Madding Crowd
87
7. Low Water
107
8. The Court Farces
128
9. New Directions
150
Page viii
Act 3: Climax (1892-1909)
10. The Second Mrs Tanqueray
173
11. "At the Point of the Pen"
203
12. The Autocrat
228
13. Respectability in Danger
254
14. England's Premier Dramatist
278
Act 4: Resolution (1909-1934)
15. Shaw and Pinero
307
16. Public Ordeals, Private Griefs
329
17. A Voice from the Past
352
Epilogue
Legacies
374
Notes
377
Bibliography
404
Index
419
Page ix
Illustrations
Frontispiece: A. J. Munnings, Royal Academy, menu cover portrait of Sir Arthur Pinero (E. T. Archive photograph, by permission of the Garrick Club)
ii
A. W. Pinero (aged fifteen), sketch of John Daniel Pinero (Cassell's Magazine, 1899)
13
A. W. Pinero, sketches of Gravesend, included in a letter to Lilly and Chrissy Schneider (University of Rochester Library)
18
Myra Holme as Clara Dart in The Mighty Dollar (The Theatre, February 1882)
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