When Aubrey Tanqueray marries for the second time he knows that his new wife Paula is a 'woman with a past'. But he has no idea how that past will catch up with him in the end. More probing than Oscar Wilde more accessible than Ibsen Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) is one of the masterpieces of the Victorian theatre: sexy dramatic funny and very moving.-6 women 5 men