Beauty's Duty | |
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Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
Date premiered | unperformed |
Original language | English |
Subject | A man is outraged by his wife's views on love |
Genre | comedy of manners |
Setting | A solicitor's office |
Beauty's Duty (1913) is a short uncompleted "playlet" by George Bernard Shaw. It is a dialogue between a man and his lawyer about the man's wife. The husband has traditional views on marriage. The wife is more idiosyncratic in her thinking.