Minor characters include the typist Proserpine Garnett and the curate Lexy Mill, but the play centers around a love triangle of sorts, as its enigmatic titular heroine must choose between her husband James Morell, a successful Christian Socialist parson, and her adolescent admirer, the love-struck poet Marchbanks.
The last stage direction in this play is: "They embrace. But they do not know the secret in the poet's heart." Minor characters include the typist Proserpine Garnett and the curate Lexy Mill, but the play centers around a love triangle of sorts, as its enigmatic titular heroine must choose between her husband James Morell, a successful Christian Socialist parson, and her adolescent admirer, the love-struck poet Marchbanks. FTP name this work, described as "A Mystery," which was first performed in Aberdeen in 1897, and which was written by George Bernard Shaw.
The last stage direction in this play is: "They embrace. But they do not know the secret in the poet's heart."
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