Candida

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Candida is a comedic play by George Bernard Shaw that explores marriage, love, and social ideals through the story of a clergyman’s wife caught between her husband and a young poet.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf comedy
play
stage work
antagonist social conventions
author George Bernard Shaw
character Burgess
Candida Morell
Eugene Marchbanks
James Morell
Lexy Mill
Proserpine Garnett
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dramaticDevice drawing-room comedy
love triangle
dramaticForm three-act play
firstPerformanceDate 1895
firstPublisher Archibald Constable & Co.
surface form: Archibald Constable and Company
genre comedy
problem play
hasCriticalReception regarded as one of Shaw’s early successful plays
hasInfluenceOn 20th-century English drama
hasTheme conflict between idealism and reality
critique of conventional marriage
female agency
socialism and social reform
includedIn Plays Pleasant
intendedAudience adult theatre-goers
language English
literaryMovement modernist theatre precursor
mainCharacter Candida Morell
Eugene Marchbanks
James Morell
medium theatre
notableQuote “Which of us do you belong to?”
partOf George Bernard Shaw
surface form: George Bernard Shaw canon
protagonist Candida Morell
setting London, England
surface form: London
settingTime late 19th century
structure three acts
subject domestic life
gender roles
love
marriage
social ideals
theatricalTradition Shavian drama
writer George Bernard Shaw

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