Editing Arthur Wing Pinero (section)

==Works==
===Plays===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0;"
|-
! scope="col" |Title
! scope="col" |Theatre
! scope="col" |Date
! scope="col" |Genre
! scope="col" |Acts
! scope="col" |Perfs
! scope="col" |Notes
|-
| ''£200 a Year''
| [[Globe Theatre (Newcastle Street)|Globe]]
| 6 October 1877
| comedy
| 1
| 36
|
|-
| ''La Comète''
| Theatre Royal, Croydon
| 22 April 1878
| drama
| 3
| n/k
|
|-
| ''Two Can Play at That Game''
| [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum]]
| 20 May 1878
| comedy
| 1
| 40
|
|-
| ''Daisy's Escape''
| Lyceum
| 20 September 1878
| comedy
| 1
| 31
|
|-
| ''Hester's Mystery''
| [[Toole's Theatre|Folly]]
| 5 June 1880
| comedy
| 1
| 308
|
|-
| ''Bygones''
| Lyceum
| 18 September 1880
| comedy
| 1
| 89
|
|-
| ''The Money Spinner''
| Prince's Theatre, Manchester<br />and [[St James's Theatre|St James's]]
| 5 November 1880<br />and 8 January 1881
| comedy
| 2
| 98
|
|-
| ''Imprudence''
| Folly
| 27 July 1881
| farce
| 3
| 54
|
|-
| ''Bound to Marry''
| unperformed
|
| comedy
| 3
|
|{{refn|Alternative titles:  ''The Breadwinners'', ''The Captain''.<ref name=list/>|group= n}}
|-
| ''The Squire''
| St James's
| 29 December 1881
| play
| 3
| 170
|
|-
| ''Girls and Boys''
| [[Toole's Theatre]]
| 31 October 1882
| comedy
| 3
| 52
|
|-
| ''The Rector''
| [[Royal Court Theatre|Court]]
| 24 March 1883
| play
| 4
| 16
|
|-
| ''Lords and Commons''
| [[Haymarket Theatre|Haymarket]]
| 24 November 1883
| comedy
| 4
| 70
|
|-
| ''The Rocket''
| Prince of Wales, Liverpool<br />and [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety]]
| 30 July 1883<br />and 10 December 1883
| farce
| 3
| 51
|
|-
| ''Low Water''
| Globe
| 12 January 1884
| comedy
| 3
| 7
|
|-
| ''The Ironmaster''
| St James's
| 17 April 1884
| play
| 4
| 200
| {{refn| Adapted from Georges Ohnet's play ''Le Maître de forges''.<ref name=list/>|group= n}}
|-
| ''In Chancery''
| Lyceum, Edinburgh<br />and Gaiety
| 19 September 1884<br />and 24 December 1884
| farce
| 3
| 36
|
|-
| ''[[The Magistrate (play)|The Magistrate]]''
| Court
| 21 March 1885
| farce
| 3
| 363
|
|-
| ''Mayfair''
| St James's
| 31 October 1885
| play
| 5
| 53
| {{refn|Adapted from Sardou's play ''Maison neuve''.<ref name=list/>|group= n}}
|-
| ''[[The Schoolmistress (play)|The Schoolmistress]]''
| Court
| 27 March 1886
| farce
| 3
| 291
|
|-
| ''The Hobby Horse''
| St James's
| 25 October 1886
| comedy
| 3
| 109
|
|-
| ''[[Dandy Dick (play)|Dandy Dick]]''
| Court
| 27 January 1887
| farce
| 3
| 262
|
|-
| ''[[Sweet Lavender]]''
| [[Terry's Theatre|Terry's]]
| 21 March 1888
| comedy
| 3
| 684
|
|-
| ''The Weaker Sex''
| Theatre Royal, Manchester<br />and Court
| 28 September 1888<br />and 16 March 1889
| comedy
| 3
| 61
|
|-
| ''The Profligate''
| [[Garrick Theatre|Garrick]]
| 24 April 1889
| play
| 4
| 129
|
|-
| ''[[The Cabinet Minister]]''
| Court
| 23 April 1890
| farce
| 4
| 199
|
|-
| ''Lady Bountiful''
| Garrick
| 7 February 1891
| play
| 4
| 65
|
|-
| ''The Times''
| Terry's
| 24 October 1891
| comedy
| 4
| 155
|
|-
| ''[[The Amazons (play)|The Amazons]]''
| Court
| 7 March 1893
| farce
| 3
| 114
|
|-
| ''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]''
| St James's
| 27 May 1893
| play
| 4
| 225
|
|-
| ''[[The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith|The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith]]''
| Garrick
| 13 March 1895
| play
| 4
| 88
|
|-
| ''The Benefit of the Doubt''
| [[Harold Pinter Theatre|Comedy]]
| 16 October 1895
| comedy
| 3
| 74
|
|-
| ''[[The Princess and the Butterfly]]''
| St James's
| 29 March 1897
| comedy
| 4
| 97
|
|-
| ''[[Trelawny of the 'Wells'|Trelawny of the "Wells"]]''
| Court
| 20 January 1898
| comedy
| 4
| 135
|
|-
| ''[[The Beauty Stone]]''
| [[Savoy Theatre|Savoy]]
| 28 March 1898
| opera
| 3
| 50
| {{refn|Written with [[J. Comyns Carr]]; music by [[Arthur Sullivan]].<ref name=list/>|group=n}}
|-
| ''[[The Gay Lord Quex (play)|The Gay Lord Quex]]''
| Globe
| 8 April 1899
| comedy
| 4
| 300
|
|-
| ''[[Iris (play)|Iris]]''
| Garrick
| 21 September 1901
| play
| 5
| 115
|
|-
| ''Letty''
| [[Duke of York's Theatre|Duke of York's]]
| 8 October 1903
| play
| 4
| 64
|
|-
| ''A Wife without a Smile''
| [[Wyndham's Theatre|Wyndham]]'s
| 12 October 1904
| farce
| 3
| 77
|
|-
| ''His House in Order''
| St James's
| 1 February 1906
| play
| 4
| 430
|
|-
| ''The Thunderbolt''
| St James's
| 9 May 1908
| play
| 4
| 58
|
|-
| ''Mid-Channel''
| St James's
| 2 September 1909
| play
| 4
| 58
|
|-
| ''Preserving Mr Panmure''
| Comedy
| 19 January 1911
| farce
| 4
| 99
|
|-
| ''[[The "Mind the Paint" Girl]]''
| Duke of York's
| 17 February 1912
| comedy
| 4
| 126
|
|-
| ''The Widow of Wasdale Head''
| Duke of York's
| 14 October 1912
| comedy
| 1
| 26
|
|-
| ''Playgoers''
| St James's
| 31 March 1913
| comedy
| 1
| 70
|
|-
| ''The Big Drum''
| St James's
| 1 September 1915
| play
| 4
| 111
|
|-
| ''Mr Livermore's Dream''
| [[London Coliseum]]
| 15 January 1917
| sketch
| 1
| 12
|
|-
| ''The Freaks''
| New
| 14 February 1918
| comedy
| 3
| 51
|
|-
| ''Monica's Blue Boy''
| New
| 8 April 1918
| play
| 1
| 38
| {{refn|Wordless play with music by [[Frederic Cowen]].<ref name=list/>|group= n}}
|-
| ''Quick Work''
| Springfield Mass
| 17 November 1919
| comedy
| 3
|
|
|-
| ''A Seat in the Park''
| Winter Garden
| 21 February 1922
| comedy
| 1
| 1
|
|-
| ''[[The Enchanted Cottage (play)|The Enchanted Cottage]]''
| Duke of York's
| 1 March 1922
| comedy
| 3
| 64
|
|-
| ''A Private Room''
| [[Little Theatre in the Adelphi|Little]]
| 14 May 1928
| play
| 1
| 23
|
|-
| ''Dr Harmer's Holidays''
| [[Lafayette Square Opera House|Shubert Belasco]], Washington DC
| 16 March 1931
| play
| 9
|
|
|-
| ''Child Man''
| unperformed
|
| farce
| 3
|
|
|-
| ''A Cold June''
| [[Duchess Theatre|Duchess]]
| 29 May 1932
| comedy
| 3
| 19
|
|-
| ''Late of Monckford's''
| unperformed
|
| play
| 3
|
|
|}
:Source: Dawick.<ref name=list>Dawick, pp. 404–409</ref>

===Broadway productions===
The original London productions that were followed by New York productions were: ''The Money Spinner'' (New York, 1882); ''The Squire'' (1882); ''Girls and Boys'' (1883); ''Lords and Commons'' (1884); ''In Chancery'' (1885); ''[[The Magistrate (play)]]'' (1885); ''The Schoolmistress'' (1886); ''Dandy Dick'' (1887); ''Sweet Lavender'' (1888); ''Lady Bountiful'' (1891); ''[[The Cabinet Minister]]'' (1892); ''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]'' (1893); ''The Amazons'' (1894); ''[[The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith]]'' (1895); ''The Benefit of the Doubt'' (1896); ''[[The Princess and the Butterfly]]'' (1897); ''[[Trelawny of the Wells]]'' (1898); ''[[The Gay Lord Quex (play)]]'' (1900); ''Iris'' (1902); ''Letty'' (1904); ''A Wife without a Smile'' (1904); ''His House in Order'' (1906); ''Mid-Channel'' (1910); ''Preserving Mr. Panmure'' (1912); ''[[The "Mind the Paint" Girl]]'' (1912); and ''The Enchanted Cottage'' (1923).<ref name=list/>
[[File:Schoolmistress - Weir Collection.jpg|thumb|alt=theatre poster depicting a melange of characters|Poster for provincial production of ''The Schoolmistress'']]

===Revivals===
Among the notable British revivals of Pinero plays singled out in John Dawick's 1993 study of the dramatist were:
*''The Magistrate'': [[Old Vic]], 1959; [[Chichester Festival]] and then [[Cambridge Theatre]], London, 1969; [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]], 1986
*''[[The Schoolmistress (play)|The Schoolmistress]]'': [[Royal Exchange Theatre]], Manchester, 1979
*''Dandy Dick'': [[Mermaid Theatre]], London, 1965; Chichester and then the Garrick, London, 1973
*''[[Sweet Lavender]]'': [[Ambassadors Theatre (London)|Ambassadors Theatre]], London, 1922
*''[[The Cabinet Minister]]'': Royal Exchange, 1987; [[Noël Coward Theatre|Albery Theatre]], London, 1991
*''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]'': [[Playhouse Theatre]], London, 1922; Haymarket 1950; National Theatre, 1981
*''[[Trelawny of the 'Wells']]'': Old Vic, 1965; [[Harold Pinter Theatre|Comedy Theatre]], London, 1992; National Theatre, 1993
*''[[The Gay Lord Quex (play)]]'': Albery, 1975
::Source: Dawick.<ref name=list/>
In 2012 ''The Times'' remarked on a revival in interest in Pinero, with new productions of ''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]'' at the [[Rose Theatre, Kingston|Rose Theatre]], ''The Magistrate'' at the National Theatre, starring [[John Lithgow]] in the title role, ''Trelawney of the "Wells"'' at the [[Donmar Warehouse|Donmar]], and ''Dandy Dick'', with [[Patricia Hodge]] and [[Nicholas Le Prevost]]. The paper commented, "Like [[Terence Rattigan]] in recent years, Pinero is being dusted down, reappraised and hailed as one of the great British playwrights".<ref>Hoyle, Ben. "Forgotten master of comic melodrama is centre stage again a hundred years on", ''The Times'', 25 September 2012, p. 11</ref>

===Adaptations===
====Musicals====
Four of Pinero's plays have been adapted as musicals: ''The Magistrate'' as ''[[The Boy (musical)|The Boy]]'' (1917) with words by [[Fred Thompson (writer)|Fred Thompson]], [[Percy Greenbank]] and [[Adrian Ross]] and music by [[Lionel Monckton]] and [[Howard Talbot]]; ''In Chancery'' as ''Who's Hooper?'' (1919) with lyrics by Thompson and music by Talbot and [[Ivor Novello]];<ref name=list/> ''The Schoolmistress''  as ''My Niece'' (1921) with words by Greenbank and music by Talbot;<ref>"Plays of the Month", ''The Play Pictorial'', August 1921, p. 63</ref> and ''Trelawny of the "Wells"'' as ''Trelawny'' (1972), adapted by [[Aubrey Woods]], [[George Rowell (historian)|George Rowell]] and [[Julian Slade]].<ref name=list/>

====Cinema====
The first of Pinero's works to be filmed was ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'', in an unauthorised American silent version in 1914, which prompted a successful but not very lucrative lawsuit by the author.<ref>Dawick, pp. 345–346</ref> With his approval, eight of his plays were adapted for the silent cinema, an authorised version of ''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1916 film)|The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]'' (1916) with George Alexander in his first film role, reprising the part he created in 1893; ''[[Trelawny of the Wells (film)|Trelawny of the "Wells"]]'' (1916); ''Sweet Lavender'' (twice: in [[Sweet Lavender (film)|1915]] and [[Sweet Lavender (1920 film)|1920]]); ''Iris'' (twice: [[Iris (1916 film)|1916]] and as ''[[A Slave of Vanity]]'', 1920); ''The Profligate'' (1917); ''The Gay Lord Quex'' (twice: [[The Gay Lord Quex (1917 film)|1917]] and [[The Gay Lord Quex (1919 film)|1919]]); ''[[Mid-Channel]]'' (1920); ''[[His House in Order (1920 film)|His House in Order]]'' (1920) and ''[[The Enchanted Cottage (1924 film)|The Enchanted Cottage]] (1924).<ref name=list/>

After the days of silent films there were adaptions of  ''[[His House in Order (1928 film)|His House in Order]]'' (1928) ''Trelawny of the "Wells"'' (as ''[[The Actress (1928 film)|The Actress]]'', 1928), ''The Magistrate'' (as ''[[Those Were the Days (1934 film)|Those Were the Days]]'', 1934), ''[[Dandy Dick (film)|Dandy Dick]]'' (1935), ''[[The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)|The Enchanted Cottage]]'' (1945), and ''[[The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1952 film)|The Second Mrs Tanqueray]]'' (1952).<ref name=list/>

====Television====
There have been many adaptations of Pinero's works for broadcasting. Television versions include ''The Gay Lord Quex'' (1946, 1953 and 1983, starring respectively  [[Ronald Ward (actor)|Ronald Ward]], [[André Morell]] and [[Anton Rogers]]); ''The Magistrate'' (1946, 1951 and 1972, [[Desmond Walter-Ellis]], [[Richard Goolden]] and [[Michael Hordern]]); ''Trelawny of the "Wells"'' (1949, 1971 and 1985, [[Bransby Williams]],  [[Roland Culver]], Michael Hordern); ''Dandy Dick'' (1948, directed by [[Athene Seyler]]) and ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'' starring [[Elizabeth Sellars]] (1962).<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=1&media=tv&q=Pinero#search "Pinero"], BBC Genome. Retrieved 17 February 2019</ref>

===Reputation===
In 1906, ''The Times'' commented:
:When Mr. Pinero is at his best we reckon ourselves as close upon the high water mark of theatrical enjoyment.  … This or that playwright may show more "heart" than Mr. Pinero or a more delicate subtlety, a third may easily outclass him in intellectual gymnastic, but in his command of the resources of the stage for the legitimate purposes of the stage he is without a rival. As it was said of Euripides that he was τραγικώτατος, the most tragic of the tragic writers, as it might be said of Molière that he was the most comic of comic writers, so it may be said of Mr. Pinero that of all our dramatists to-day he is the most "dramatic". The art of drama is, quintessentially, the art of story-telling, as the sculptors say, "in the round". Mr. Pinero is supreme as a story-teller of that sort. We are always keenly interested in what his people are doing at the moment; we always have the liveliest curiosity about what they are going to do a moment later.<ref>"St James's Theatre, ''The Times'', 2 February 1906, p. 4</ref>

By the time of Pinero's death in 1934 the paper had become less enthusiastic. Both ''The Times'' and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' published polite obituaries that respectfully relegated his works to a bygone era.<ref>Dawick, p. 374</ref> For twenty years after his death Pinero's reputation remained in what Dawick calls "a state of near-eclipse". From the 1950s onwards interest in his Court farces grew. In a 1972 study of the playwright, Walter Lazenby wrote, "Pinero cannot be outranked as a farceur by any other English writer; not even Shakespeare consistently expended on this form the care and art which went into the Court Theatre farces or achieved such thoroughly satisfying results".<ref>Lazenby, p. 155</ref> Reviewing the book, the academic Robert Ronning agreed that the farces were Pinero's most enduring works:
:The fact that students will continue to read ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'' instead of ''The Magistrate'' does not mean much except for what they learn about craftsmanship, and this could be learned equally well from the farces. ... While we have seen considerable interest in the field of nineteenth century drama in recent years, one doubts if Pinero's social and problem plays will ever catch on.<ref>Ronning, Robert. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3206101 "Arthur Wing Pinero by Walter Lazenby], ''Educational Theatre Journal'', October 1974, pp. 415–416 {{subscription required}}</ref>
In 2012 the director [[Stephen Unwin (director)|Stephen Unwin]] wrote:

:One of the most heartening developments in recent years has been the critical rehabilitation of the oft-scorned giants of the commercial theatre. Thus Coward has been revealed as an English Chekhov and Rattigan as the supreme explorer of the hidden heart. But neither would have been possible without Pinero, whose surprisingly moving, amazingly theatrical and deeply humane plays still have the power to astonish and delight 100 years after they first created such a stir.<ref>Unwin, Stephen. [https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/1416320009D03CD0"Pinero: forgotten funnyman of the Victorian theatre]", ''The Independent'' 18 September 2012 {{subscription required}}</ref>