You Never Can Tell
One of Shaw’s Plays Pleasant, this four-act comedy sets its knots in a seaside resort. Mrs. Clandon has raised her three children abroad for eighteen years, filling their heads with modern ideas but never naming their father. When the family sits down to lunch at a hotel, the estranged Mr. Crampton turns out to be a fellow guest, and the reunion goes about as smoothly as one might fear. Meanwhile the penniless dentist Valentine sets his sights on the coolly rational eldest daughter, Gloria, who insists she is above romance. A wise old waiter presides over the chaos with unflappable calm. Shaw pokes fun at advanced opinions and the stubbornness of feeling alike. Offered here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.
About the Author
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and socialist polemicist who became the leading English-language dramatist of his era. A co-founder of the Fabian Society, he used comedy to attack social hypocrisy and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
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