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An comedy satire of the aesthetic movement, particularly inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites and based on the play Le Mari à la Campagne (1844). Two aesthetes attempt to convert a man's wife and mother-in-law to Aestheticism to inherit their fortune; the man's friend, the Colonel, attempts to restore order.
First performed at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre on February 2, 1881.
More information is available at the The Nineteenth-Century Marteau.
