Arthur Wing Pinero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur Wing Pinero

British writer

Date of Birth: 24-May-1855

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1934

Profession: actor, writer, playwright, stage actor, theater director

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Arthur Wing Pinero

  • Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 – 23 November 1934) was an English playwright and, early in his career, actor.
  • Pinero was drawn to the theatre from an early age, and became a professional actor at the age of 19.
  • He gained experience as a supporting actor in British provincial theatres, and from 1876 to 1881 was a member of Henry Irving's company, based at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
  • Pinero wrote his first play in 1877.
  • Seven years later, having written 15 more, three of them highly successful, he abandoned acting and became a full-time playwright.
  • He first became known for a series of farces, of which The Magistrate (1885) was the longest-running.
  • During the 1890s he turned to serious subjects.
  • The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893), dealing with a woman with a scandalous past, was regarded as shocking, but ran well and made a large profit.
  • His other successes included Trelawny of the "Wells" (1898), a romantic comedy celebrating the theatre, old and new, and The Gay Lord Quex, about a reformed roué and a feisty young woman.
  • A venture into opera, with a libretto for The Beauty Stone (1898), was not a success, and Pinero thereafter generally stuck to his familiar genre of society dramas and comedies.
  • Although he continued to write throughout the first three decades of the 20th century and into the fourth, its is Pinero's work from the 1880s and 1890s that has endured.
  • There have been numerous revivals of many of his plays; and some have been adapted for the cinema or as musicals.
  • By his later years, Pinero was seen as old-fashioned, and his last plays were not successful.
  • He died in London at the age of 79.

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