{"id":159,"date":"2006-04-26T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=159"},"modified":"2006-04-26T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T03:23:00","slug":"candida-by-george-bernard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/04\/candida-by-george-bernard-shaw.html","title":{"rendered":"Candida by George Bernard Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GBS&#8217; plays read like novels and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140450378\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Candida<\/a> is no exception.  It&#8217;s funny to imagine someone trying to play &#8220;A vigorous, genial, popular man of forty, robust and goodlooking, full of energy, with pleasant, hearty, considerate manners, and a sound, unaffected voice, which he uses with the clean, athletic articulation of a practised orator, and with a wide range and perfect command of expression.&#8221;  Fortunately Shaw&#8217;s stage directions can usually be safely ignored if you&#8217;re trying to stage the thing and they do add to the readability when you&#8217;re only reading it.  <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t one of Shaw&#8217;s best plays.  It&#8217;s a little dull with neither global reach nor comic aspects.  The ending is anti-climactic.  Nothing has happened and no one has changed.  We&#8217;re supposed to find the character of Candida captivating but I mostly found her shallow and silly.  She&#8217;s from a different era and doesn&#8217;t translate well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GBS&#8217; plays read like novels and Candida is no exception. It&#8217;s funny to imagine someone trying to play &#8220;A vigorous, genial, popular man of forty, robust and goodlooking, full of energy, with pleasant, hearty, considerate manners, and a sound, unaffected voice, which he uses with the clean, athletic articulation of a practised orator, and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theaterplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}