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    A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida"
    A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida"
    A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida"
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    A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida"

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    A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535820400
    A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida"

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      A Study Guide for George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" - Gale

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      Candida

      George Bernard Shaw

      1898

      Introduction

      Candida is a three-act domestic comedy written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1894. The play was first produced onstage in 1897 and published in 1898. The title character (whose name is pronounced CAN- did-uh) is an attractive, vivacious woman who is put in the position of having to choose between two men: her husband, James Morell, a popular, energetic Christian socialist clergyman; and Eugene Marchbanks, a romantic eighteen-year-old poet who has become infatuated with her. Although the play depicts a conventional love triangle, it has survived on the stage because of its witty and provocative exploration of love, marriage, fidelity, and the role and position of women.

      Candida is an early play in the Shaw canon. Prior to the mid-1890s, Shaw wrote plays that he characterized as unpleasant because they would have forced the audience to face difficult truths. He followed these with a group of four plays he regarded as more pleasant and amusing. One of these was Candida, which was published in a collection called Plays Pleasant along with Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell. (This collection was one volume in a two-volume collection titled Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant.) These plays pleasant are lighter and more comic in tone yet continue to embody thought-provoking views.

      Candida is available in Plays by George Bernard Shaw (Signet, 1960).

      Author Biography

      Shaw was born on July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland, to a lower-middle-class Scots-Protestant family. His father, George, worked as a corn merchant and drank heavily. His mother, Bessie, was a professional singer who fell in love with a musician who went variously by George Lee, George John Lee, George Vandeleur Lee, and Vandeleur Lee. When Shaw was fifteen years old, his mother abandoned him and his father and, with Shaw's sisters in tow, followed Lee to London. Shaw always went by the name Bernard Shaw, rejecting George because it was the name of his father and of his mother's lover.

      Shaw's education was irregular, for he was never able to adapt himself to any kind of educational system. In 1876, he left Dublin for London, where he lived off of his mother and sister while he pursued a career in writing and journalism, especially art, music, and theater criticism. During these early years in London,

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