"The Second Mrs Tanqueray" by Arthur Wing Pinero

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"This study will examine the structure of Arthur Wing Pinero's play, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, focusing on the ways the work divides what is going on in the physical world or the body and what is going on in the soul or the mind. In those structural terms, the study will examine the character of Paula as it changes and develops through the play.
Pinero establishes the fact that Paula's character is profoundly affected by her physical environment, by what other people think about her in that environment, and, certainly, by the physical needs of her body. The playwright shows through this relationship of character to environment that Paula is a woman headed for disaster, because she is almost entirely shaped by what other people think of her and because she has little sense of her self separate from others. Pinero chooses this approach..."

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