The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life.
ShawwroteCandidaas a reaction toHenrik Ibsen’ssocial dramas, and especiallyA Doll’s House. But where Ibsen’s play...