Jones, Henry Arthur Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
... 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...
