The Second Mrs Tanqueray
Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
First Performance: 1893, London
Published: 1895
Genre: Drama in 4 acts
Setting: Tanqueray's rooms in London and his house in Surrey, 1890s
Cast: 7m, 4f
To his friends' surprise, Aubrey Tanqueray, a respectable widower of 42, is to marry Paula, a 27-year-old woman with a ‘past’. She hands him a sealed letter describing her past adventures, but he burns it, wishing to start afresh with her. Aubrey's daughter Ellean, abandoning her plan to become a nun, comes to live with them. Some months later, it is clear that the marriage is not going well. The Tanquerays are cut by society, and Ellean is standoffish. Aubrey agrees that a neighbour should take Ellean with her on a trip to Paris, and later admits to Paula that this was a way of removing his daughter from...
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