Project Gutenberg 2005-05-02 Public domain in the USA. 311 Pinero, Arthur Wing 1855 1934 Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, A. W. (Arthur Wing) Pinero, Arthur W. (Arthur Wing) The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Lord_Quex_(play) Produced by Michael Ciesielski, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. "The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts" by Arthur Wing Pinero is a comedic play written in the late 19th century. The narrative centers around the character of Lord Quex, who is on the verge of marriage to Miss Muriel Eden while navigating the complexities of his past relationships, particularly with the Duchess of Strood and his interactions with various women, including the charming manicurist Sophy Fullgarney. The play explores themes of love, reputation, and social propriety in a comedic light. The opening of the play introduces the bustling scene of a manicure establishment, where the characters engage in lively conversation about beauty, love, and gossip. Sophy Fullgarney, the head manicurist, blooms with ambition and flirtation as she juggles her feelings towards her fiancé, Frank Pollitt (a.k.a. Valma, the palmist), while attracting the attention of the debonair Lord Quex. The act sets up a comedic interaction where Sophy and Quex flirt playfully as they discuss manicuring, revealing both characters' personalities and foreshadowing ensuing romantic entanglements. As the scene unfolds, tensions and nuances of social class, respectability, and infidelity come into play, laying the groundwork for the complex relationships that will develop throughout the story. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Comedy plays English drama -- 19th century PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: British Literature 349207 2025-06-07T04:14:58.850402 text/html 359148 2020-12-14T11:03:59 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 89790 2020-12-14T11:03:59 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 172049 2025-06-07T04:15:13.462782 application/epub+zip 175408 2025-06-07T04:15:02.983371 application/epub+zip 159660 2025-06-07T04:15:01.262386 application/epub+zip 398380 2025-06-07T04:15:18.582773 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 568837 2025-06-07T04:15:12.303300 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 513342 2022-09-07T23:30:08.234670 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 213909 2025-06-07T04:14:56.892406 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 213692 2020-12-14T11:03:59 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 77421 2020-12-14T11:03:59 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 213683 2020-12-14T11:03:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 77366 2020-12-14T11:03:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21111 2025-06-07T04:15:18.737758 application/rdf+xml 14643 2025-06-07T04:15:01.914356 image/jpeg 3593 2025-06-07T04:15:01.572388 image/jpeg 166750 2025-06-07T04:14:58.874355 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia