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그가 남편에게 거짓말을 한 방법(How He Lied to Her Husband)은 조지 버나드 쇼(George Bernard Shaw)가 배우 아놀드 데일리(Arnold Daly)의 요청으로 1904년 스코틀랜드에서 휴가를 보내는 동안 4일 동안 쓴 단막 코미디 극입니다. 서문에서 그는 다음과 같이 설명했습니다. 그것은 "교리적인 낭만주의 대신 실제 인류의 관찰 된 손길로 채워서 가장 험난한 무대 구조로도 무엇을 할 수 있는지의 샘플"입니다. 이 연극은 Shaw 자신의 매우 성공적인 초기 연극 Candida (캐릭터 중 한 명이 볼 티켓을 얻음)에 대한 일종의 풍자적 논평으로 종종 해석되었습니다.
<A classic read in English_ How He Lied to Her Husband by Bernard Shaw >
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).
Summary
The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Shaw describes Henry Apjohn as "a very beautiful youth, moving as in a dream, walking as on air," while Aurora Bompas has "an air of being a young and beautiful woman but as a matter of hard fact, she is, dress and pretensions apart, a very ordinary South Kensington female of about 37, hopelessly inferior in physical and spiritual distinction to the beautiful youth." The third character is Aurora's husband Teddy, "a robust, thicknecked, well groomed city man, with a strong chin but a blithering eye and credulous mouth."
Aurora is distressed because she has misplaced some poems, in which she is identified by name, written for her with declarations of love by the impetuous Henry.
