Candida
Candida Author: George Bernard Shaw
First Performance: 1897, Aberdeen
Published: 1898; rev. 1930
Genre: Com. in 3 acts
Setting: The Morells' home, London, 1894
Cast: 4m, 2f
Revd James Morell is a Christian Socialist, whose fiery denunciations of contemporary working conditions do not shrink from attacking his own father-in-law. His wife Candida returns from holiday in the company of a young poet Eugene Marchbanks. Marchbanks confesses to Morell that he loves Candida, and when Morell complacently dismisses Marchbank's claim on her, the poet, frightened as he is, denounces Morell's pomposity. Morell orders him out of the house, and Marchbanks accuses him of cowardice – that he dare not let Candida choose between them. Morell counters by inviting Marchbanks to stay alone with Candida that evening while he goes...
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