Shaw’s playful one-act comedy sets a stiff, proper English officer, Captain Edstaston, loose at the court of the Empress Catherine, where Prince Potemkin drinks and bullies and the empress herself is bored with being majestic. In a prefatory apology Shaw explains why he cared more for Catherine’s character than for her diplomacy and conquests.
A light, quick-witted Shaw piece, written as a star vehicle and still funny on the page. Download the free EPUB.