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Although "Candida" was first publicly performed in 1904, it had been written nine years earlier, a fact which demonstrates the continued unpopularity of Shaw's realism on the London stage until the tremendous Granville-Barker season from 1904 to 1907. This lag is not surprising to us when we read about the extraordinarily shabby romanticism of the London theatre in the 'nineties in Shaw's own briliant dramatic criticisms. True to his belief in Ibsenism as the only possible direction for drama to take, Shaw wrote his Unpleasant Plays (as he said himself) to show that there was such a thing as |
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