Shaw's "Candida" as a Drama of Ideas

The show himself writes that Candida is the opposite of the Ibsen doll's house, in a typical doll's house, people are dolls. Or the doll, at the end of the game, his heroine rebelled and left her husband. Candida Shaw strongly and effectively overturned the idea of ​​Ibsen. Confrontation or inversion is your favorite skill among all his plays at the show. In Candida, he not only reversed the main idea of ​​Dolls House but also refuted the typical situation of the present type of Victorian domestic comedy. It is very popular to play romantic affair and its kind

In 1904, Harley Granville Barker was an actor, director and playwriter 20 years younger than the show and took over the administration of the court theater of Chelsea Sloan Square (outside the theater land) and was a private school to produce Candida of the show It appeared in the theater society. Fashionable West End "and dedicated it to the research of a new progressive drama.In the next three seasons, Barker was released by Barker as a director, and in the following three seasons, Barker was actually released by himself He directed the script), and Shaw began writing a new play for the management of Barker In the next decade all of Shaw's plays (Pygmalion of 1914) are around the UK In other experimental theater management at Barker or Barker's friends and colleagues, with his royalty in the drama, the show became economically independent in marriage, and now It is very rich.

After the turn of the 20th century, the show promoted his ideas more and more through his drama medium. Early critics who wrote in 1904 observed that Xiao play provided "a happy way to change his socialism" and "Mr. Xiao's opinion is specifically sought for in the preface of his play "I added." After abandoning the relationship with the Fabian movement in 1911, Xiao's work became more personal and often provocative, and after the war of common sense of 1914, prepare the response to his anger for the sequel It was about war. At this point he condemned the pacifist series supported by Ramsey McDonald and other socialist leaders and was ready to shoot all pacifists rather than to give up on their power and influence I declared that. According to the proposal by Beatrice Webb, this booklet has not been issued yet.

The play was originally produced at the Avenue Theater on April 21, 1894, and was published as part of a fun drama of the show including the Rosary. Weapons and men are one of the first commercial success of the show. He was summoned to the stage behind the scenes, where he received a warm applause. The audience snouted in the cheers. "My dear friend, I quite agree with you, but why are we thinking about so many people?"