Candida by George Bernard Shaw

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"The purpose of this research is to examine Candida by George Bernard Shaw. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas emerging in the work and the means by which such ideas are put forward, and then to discuss the character of the male-female relationships that surface in the action of the play.

The sociopolitical climate of Shaw's England appears to have offered the playwright the subject of his conflict. In his 1895 essay on the problem play, Shaw states the primacy of social issues in modern drama, expressing himself in dramatic rather than directly sociopolitical terms. One critical point is that a good problem play is good chiefly because of the emotional content of the human condition portrayed in the text.
Social questions are produced by the conflict of human institutions with human feeling. . . . Now the material of..."

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