In a decaying palazzo on the Grand Canal, Agnes Ebbsmith, a widow with advanced views on marriage, is living with Lucas Cleeve, a young politician who has left his wife. His uncle, the worldly Duke of St Olpherts, arrives in Venice to bring him home, and Agnes must decide what her ideals are worth against convention and love.
One of Pinero’s celebrated problem plays of the 1890s, a sharp dramatic study of the double standard. Download the free EPUB.