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Mrs Dane's Defence

A: Henry Arthur Jones Pf: 1900, London Pb: 1900 G: Drama in ...

Jones, Henry Arthur

Jones, Henry Arthur   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

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2005

... The Liars ( 1897 ). However, his reputation in his own era depended primarily on ‘problem plays’ which, like those of Pinero, and from a stance fundamentally as conventional, treated such subjects as the woman with a dubious past and double standards of sexual behaviour. Mrs Dane's Defence ( 1900 ) remains the most effective of these, but the same theme intrudes in Saints and Sinners ( 1884 ) and Michael and His Lost Angel ( 1895 ), two plays in which the protagonist is a clergyman afflicted by scandal. The latter was praised by Shaw , as much an...

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