![]() Candida says she will choose the weaker of the two, her husband. He offers all the support of a Victorian husband, Marchbanks offers only his weakness. When he returns to find Marchbanks worshipfully repeating Candida's name, Morell now insists that she must choose between them. Morell counters by inviting Marchbanks to stay alone with Candida that evening while he goes out to preach. ![]() Morell orders him out of the house, and Marchbanks accuses him of cowardice – that he dare not let Candida choose between them. Marchbanks confesses to Morell that he loves Candida, and when Morell complacently dismisses Marchbank's claim on her, the poet, frightened as he is, denounces Morell's pomposity. His wife Candida returns from holiday in the company of a young poet Eugene Marchbanks. in 3 acts S: The Morells' home, London, 1894 C: 4m, 2fRevd James Morell is a Christian Socialist, whose fiery denunciations of contemporary working conditions do not shrink from attacking his own father-in-law. ![]() ![]() A: George Bernard Shaw Pf: 1897, Aberdeen Pb: 1898 rev. ![]()
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