The title of Candida is a tell-tale of the demeanor characteristics of its eponymous heroine Candida. Candida has always been one of Shaw's most popular plays, in which Shaw tells us the ins and outs of conjugal happiness. ‘Plays pleasant' basically consist of three plays, Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894) and You Never Can Tell (1896). Do help us spread a word for this one!)Ī part of Shaw’s ‘Plays pleasant', Candida was written in 1894 and first published in 1898. ( Announcement: Bookish Santa has organized a massive books by weight sale at Guwahati from 12th May to 21st May, 2023. It is a comedy, mystery play, comprising of three acts with apt subtitle, ‘a mystery'. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”Ĭandida is an aesthetic evidence of Shaw's extemporary idea of ‘Art for art’s sake’. “An honest man feels that he must pay Heaven for every hour of happiness with a good spell of hard, unselfish work to make others happy.
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