Candida
by George Bernard Shaw
94 pages~2 hrs
“Who is truly the weakest in a house built on high ideals?”
A self-assured clergyman finds his orderly world upended when a sensitive young poet declares his love for the clergyman’s wife. In this sharp-witted masterpiece, George Bernard Shaw dismantles Victorian ideals of marriage to reveal the complex power dynamics hidden within the domestic sphere.
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