Candida: Play Guide and Free Edition
Candida: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Candida is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Shaw, Bernard (1856–1950).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Candida" by Bernard Shaw is a comedy written in 1894. A young poet falls in love with Candida, the wife of a successful clergyman, and attempts to win her away from what he sees as her mundane domestic life. The play challenges Victorian assumptions about love and marriage, asking what women truly desire from their husbands. Candida must ultimately choose between her devoted husband and her passionate admirer—but her choice reveals unexpected truths about strength, dependency, and the nature of love itself.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Candida
- Author credits: Shaw, Bernard (1856–1950)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Marriage -- Drama
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
- Nobel Prizes in Literature
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