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Edition 1 (1917)

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Jesse Lynch Williams じぇしー・りんち・うぃりあむず Winner

A three-act play that brings the contradictions of marriage into focus through sharp exchanges between characters with different values. Its wit turns love, freedom, and social respectability into a pointed satire of the era's assumptions.

Is marriage a promise of happiness, or a trap of convention?

254 pages
marriagesocial normsdialogue-driven dramasatire