How He Lied to Her Husband

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How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy by George Bernard Shaw ()[1]

The original text

Set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London it is a play about a poet who falls in love with a married woman.

Shaw wrote it at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. It was first performed by Daly in New York as a curtain raiser for The Man of Destiny in 1905, with a London cast consisting of Harley Granville-Barker, A. G. Poultonand Gertrude Kingston.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Hoe Hy vir Haar Man Gelieg Het by Maridi Jooste, as a project in the playwriting course in the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University. The text is unpublished. A copy of the typed text (with comments by the lecturer) held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

How He Lied to Her Husband in Wikipedia[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw

A copy of the typed text of Hoe Hy vir Haar Man Gelieg Het, held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.


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