Candida

Categories: Drama

George Bernard Shaw's comedy, first performed in 1897 and published among his Plays Pleasant. Candida, wife of the popular Christian Socialist clergyman James Morell, is courted by the young poet Eugene Marchbanks and must choose between the two men, deciding in favor of the one who needs her more.

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• Winston Churchill: “Candida, Major Barbara, and Man and Superman riveted the attention of the intellectual world.”