| How He Lied to Her Husband | |
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| Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
| Date premiered | 26 September 1904 |
| Place premiered | New York, Berkeley Lyceum |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | A poet falls in love with a married woman |
| Genre | comedy of manners |
| Setting | A flat in Cromwell Road, London |
How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage framework by filling it in with an observed touch of actual humanity instead of with doctrinaire romanticism." The play has often been interpreted as a kind of satirical commentary on Shaw's own highly successful earlier play Candida (which one of the characters gets tickets to see).
It was first performed by Daly in New York as a curtain raiser for The Man of Destiny. The original 1905 London cast were Harley Granville-Barker as Henry Apjohn, A. G. Poulton as Teddy Bompas, and Gertrude Kingston as Aurora Bompas.[1]