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How He Lied to Her HusbandBernard Shaw

How He Lied to Her Husband

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Original author: Bernard Shaw

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"How He Lied to Her Husband" by Bernard Shaw is a one-act comedy play written in 1904. Created in just four days as a response to the success of his earlier work "Candida," this satirical farce follows a tangled situation involving a poet, his muse, and her husband. When compromising love poems go missing, panic ensues—but the confrontation takes an unexpected turn that subverts romantic assumptions. Shaw transforms a hackneyed theatrical framework into sharp commentary on marriage, vanity, and melodramatic conventions.

How He Lied to Her Husband, by Bernard Shaw. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #3544.

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