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A weekend at a prosperous country house becomes the stage for a cascade of comic confrontations when guests and relatives collide over courtship, manners, and social pretensions. Central tensions arise from a scrutinized suitor and the young woman whose choices provoke competing opinions, while other arrivals and misunderstandings amplify the chaos. Witty, argumentative dialogue and moments of physical farce expose hypocrisies of class, the contradictions of romantic idealism, and generational differences. The work compresses satirical ideas about marriage and social expectation into brisk scenes that alternate talky debates with lively stage business.

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Title: Misalliance

Author: Bernard Shaw

Release date: June 1, 1997 [eBook #943]
Most recently updated: December 13, 2012

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Ron Burkey, Amy Thomte, and David Widger

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MISALLIANCE


By George Bernard Shaw







     Transcriber's Notes on the editing: Punctuation and spelling
     are retained as in the printed text. Shaw used a non-
     standard system of spelling and punctuation.  For example,
     contractions usually have no apostrophe:  "don't" is given
     as "dont", "you've" as "youve", and so on.  Abbreviated
     honorifics have no trailing period:  "Dr." is given as "Dr",
     "Mrs." as "Mrs", and so on. "Shakespeare" is given as
     "Shakespear".  Where several characters in the play are
     speaking at once, I have indicated it with vertical bars
     ("|").  The pound (currency) symbol has been replaced by the
     word "pounds".






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