" Pinero: A Theatrical Life" by John Dawick (Book Review)

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John Dawick Pinero: A Theatrica Life (Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1993). Sir Arthur Wing Pinero is a dramatist who often elicits apologies from those defending his works. Even George Rowell, in his elegant and succinct introduction to his selection of Pinero's plays for Cambridge University Press, and John Russell Taylor, in The Rise and Fall of the Well-Made Play, acknowledge Pinero's important contribution to British drama in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, but are nevertheless qualified in their praises. Equally, Martin Meisel, writing about Shaw and the nineteenth-century theatre, allows Pinero praise where he considers praise is due, but is inclined to agree with Shaw's own estimate of Pinero's weaknesses, in particular his criticism of Pinero's conventional handling of plot and character. Why, then, do we require a new biography of Pinero? After all, apart from Trelawny of the Wells, which …

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1994

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