Show Plot Candida

Authors: George Bernard Shaw

Time Period: 1890s, late Victorian Era

Setting: London, October, in the vicarage (parsonage) of St. Dominic's parsonage in northeast London (the unfashionable district of Hackney).

Summary: Candida explores a love triangle between a charismatic clergyman, his self-assured wife, and an idealistic young poet, critiquing traditional Victorian ideals of marriage, gender roles, and romance.