How He Lied to Her Husband by Bernard Shaw
"How He Lied to Her Husband" by Bernard Shaw is a one-act comedy play written in 1904. Created in just four days as a response to the success of his earlier work "Candida," this satirical farce follows a tangled situation involving a poet, his muse, and her husband. When compromising love poems go missing, panic ensues—but the confrontation takes an unexpected turn that subverts romantic assumptions. Shaw transforms a hackneyed theatrical framework
into sharp commentary on marriage, vanity, and melodramatic conventions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 |
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| Title | How He Lied to Her Husband |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_He_Lied_to_Her_Husband |
| Credits | Produced by Eve Sobol, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 82.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English drama (Comedy) |
| Subject | Marriage -- Drama |
| Subject | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama |
| Subject | London (England) -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 3544 |
| Release Date | Nov 1, 2002 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 14, 2012 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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