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The Gay Lord Quex is an 1899 comedy play by the British playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. It depicts the vicissitudes of a reformed philanderer attempting to embark on monogamy. The original production provoked controversy, some critics finding the plot at best questionable and at worst immoral.
The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
The Gay Lord Quex: Directed by Harry Beaumont. With Tom Moore, Gloria Hope, Naomi Childers, Hazel Daly. Having followed the road of romance through many countries, Lord Quex finally falls in love with Muriel Eden.
Lord Quex is forty-eight, keen-faced and bright-eyed, faultless in dress, in manner debonair and charming. Frayne is a genial wreck of about five-and-forty—the lean and shrivelled remnant of a once good-looking man.
Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intended. The play shows the difficulties in shaking a discreditable past - and how it is different for a male Lord than for a woman. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The Marquess of Quex: ToddHW
The Gay Lord Quex, a story of a determined and resourceful young woman and a reformed aristocratic philanderer, had an initial run of 300 performances, and has proved one of Pinero's more revivable plays.
The Gay Lord Quex may refer to: The Gay Lord Quex, an 1899 play by Arthur Wing Pinero; The Gay Lord Quex, a British silent film adaptation directed by Maurice Elvey; The Gay Lord Quex, an American silent film adaptation directed by Harry Beaumont
