Candida: Bernard Shaw's Chaucerian Drama

Author / Editor
White, Patrick

Title
Candida: Bernard Shaw's Chaucerian Drama

Published
Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 12 (1992): 213-28.

Description
Adds FranT to the list of possible sources of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida." Evidence for the influence includes a similar tone in the two works, concern with a "rash promise" or "reckless declaration," plot resolution through "magnanimity," and similar characterization of the husbands, wives, and prospective lovers.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Franklin and His Tale