〈 영어로 읽는 고전 _ 버나드 쇼의 결혼하기〉
결혼하기(Getting Married)는 조지 버나드 쇼(George Bernard Shaw)의 연극입니다. 1908년에 처음 공연된 이 작품은 가족들이 결혼을 위해 함께 모이는 모습을 담고 있습니다. 이 연극은 이혼법 자유화의 필요성에 특히 초점을 맞춰 쇼 시대의 결혼 상태를 분석하고 풍자합니다.
〈A classic read in English_ Getting Married by Bernard Shaw 〉
Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws.
Summary
Edith, youngest daughter of Bishop Bridgenorth, is about to be married. Her uncle General Boxer Bridgenorth, will give her away, as he has all her sisters. As at all the other weddings he proposes to Lesbia Grantham, the bride's aunt, who refuses him for the "tenth and last" time. Lesbia wants a family, but not a husband who smokes and is as untidy as the general. The General is soon shocked to find that his disreputable brother Reginald will be at the wedding. Reginald was recently divorced by his wife for assaulting her and for his adultery with a prostitute. Even more distressingly, his ex-wife Leo is coming too. When the divorcees arrive they are not at all embarrassed. It seems that Leo and her ex-husband arranged the "assault" and the "prostitute" so that they could separate without any blame attaching to Leo, who wishes to marry another man - St John Hotchkiss.
