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Arthur Wing Pinero's play, "Trelawny of the "Wells"" - which was first produced at the Court Theatre on January 20th, 1898 - was also a vacationary exercise; yet this minor undertaking has turned out, in retrospect, to be one of the most popular of all his many compositions. After the subsidence of its first production, "Trelawny of the "Wells"" has been "revived," again and yet again, in both London and New York; and each of these "revivals" has stimulated the currency of the piece with many companies of amateur actors.
"Trelawny of the "Wells"" may be classed with "The Amazons" (1893) as one of the most ingratiating of the lighter comedies of Pinero. In praise of these two compositions, it is not unfair to say that either of them might have been imagined by Sir James Barrie, -a dramatist so different, at nearly every point, from Sir Arthur Pinero that it is not at all surprising to record the fact that these two artists are fast friends and mutual admirers. In "Trelawny of the "Wells"," Pinero has recorded faithfully the memories maintained from that period of the early eighteen-seventies when he himself was an apprentice actor on the English stage. This comedy-considered as a work of fiction-betrays, of course, the influence of Dickens; but Pinero himself has told me that nearly every character in "Trelawny of the "Wells"" was drawn directly from the life. Tom Wrench, of course, is a careful portrait of Pinero's own precursor in the English drama, -Thomas William Robertson, -who, in his own day and according to his lights, sought sedulously to record the truth and to write the sort of composition that might justly be entitled, "Life: A Comedy." The other "theatrical folk" of this reminiscent composition were sketched from the author's memory of various old actors who used to take the centre of the stage at Sadler's Wells when Samuel Phelps was in his prime. The "non-theatrical folk" whose presence completes the pattern seem to have been borrowed bodily from Dickens; but there is no nobler lending-agency than this in the history of English fiction.
- "The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero," Volume 2


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781517124878
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 204
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 421 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1517124875
  • Publisher Date: 31 Aug 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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