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Iris Bellamy, a wealthy young widow bound by her late husband’s will to lose her fortune if she remarries, loves the penniless Laurence Trenwith but accepts millionaire Frederick Maldonado. After her trustee loses her money, Iris and Trenwith separate; years later Maldonado’s control and her divided choices lead to a tragic confrontation.
Three sisters are raised by their aristocratic father as male heirs and struggle to adjust to society. Pinero’s farcical romance follows the social complications of their upbringing and gender expectations.
Laine, a poor weaver’s ugly and crippled daughter, wishes to be beautiful. The Devil gives her a stone that grants beauty, and Prince Philip falls for her appearance. She renounces the stone, which passes from her father Simon to Saida; while Laine returns to her former form, Philip loses his sight in battle and recognizes her inner beauty. Saida discards the stone, and Philip chooses Laine.
A cabinet minister spends far beyond his means and accumulates massive debts.
Maimed veteran Oliver and plain village girl Laura marry after finding companionship in an old cottage. They believe a change has made them physically beautiful, but when their visitors see no transformation, they learn that love has changed how they see one another. A dream sequence imagines the wedding Oliver and Laura might have shared before the war.
A magistrate's wife has concealed her age and her son is older than he believes. She and her sister visit a hotel to confront old acquaintances; the magistrate and his stepson end up there too, and a police raid sets off a chase that leads him to hear the case involving his own family.
Iris Bellamy, a wealthy young widow bound by her late husband’s will to lose her fortune if she remarries, loves the penniless Laurence Trenwith but accepts millionaire Frederick Maldonado. After her trustee loses her money, Iris and Trenwith separate; years later Maldonado’s control and her divided choices lead to a tragic confrontation.
Three sisters are raised by their aristocratic father as male heirs and struggle to adjust to society. Pinero’s farcical romance follows the social complications of their upbringing and gender expectations.
Laine, a poor weaver’s ugly and crippled daughter, wishes to be beautiful. The Devil gives her a stone that grants beauty, and Prince Philip falls for her appearance. She renounces the stone, which passes from her father Simon to Saida; while Laine returns to her former form, Philip loses his sight in battle and recognizes her inner beauty. Saida discards the stone, and Philip chooses Laine.
A cabinet minister spends far beyond his means and accumulates massive debts.
Maimed veteran Oliver and plain village girl Laura marry after finding companionship in an old cottage. They believe a change has made them physically beautiful, but when their visitors see no transformation, they learn that love has changed how they see one another. A dream sequence imagines the wedding Oliver and Laura might have shared before the war.
A magistrate's wife has concealed her age and her son is older than he believes. She and her sister visit a hotel to confront old acquaintances; the magistrate and his stepson end up there too, and a police raid sets off a chase that leads him to hear the case involving his own family.
Princess Pannonia returns to London after her Hungarian husband’s death and falls in love with old friend Sir George Lamorant. Their plans are complicated by anxieties about middle age and by other romantic entanglements; the five-act comedy follows characters in London and Paris toward impulsive marriages.
At a girls' boarding school, the feckless husband of its absent headmistress spends the money intended for household bills on a supper party, while pupils and a secretly married couple bring further complications. A fire leads to chaotic escapes and reconciliations.
Trelawny of the "Wells" tells the story of Rose Trelawny, a popular star of melodrama plays at the Barridge Wells Theatre (a thinly disguised Sadler's Wells Theatre). Rose gives up the stage when she decides to marry her sweetheart, Arthur Gower, in order to please his conservative family. She finds life with Arthur's grandfather and great-aunt, Sir William and Lady Trafalgar, unbearably dull, and they detest her loud and unrestrained personality. Rose runs back to the theatre, abandoning Arthur. But her experience of the "real world" has killed her talent for melodrama, and she cannot recapture the liveliness that had made her a star. Meanwhile, Arthur has secretly run away to become an actor at the Bristol Old Vic. The problem is solved when Rose encounters Sir William again, and she reawakens his memory of admiring the great actor Edmund Kean as a young man. Sir William offers to help Rose's friend, Tom Wrench, an aspiring playwright who dreams of staging plays in a more realist style than the melodramas that dominate the stage. Tom stages the play with Rose as the star, and her newfound seriousness fits his style perfectly. Tom secretly arranges for Arthur to play the leading male role, and the lovers are re-united on stage.