Captain Brassbound's Conversion

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Shaw's 1900 play sends an aristocratic English lady judge to Morocco, where she encounters her nephew — the pirate Captain Brassbound, who has devoted his life to avenging his mother's mistreatment by the judge's family. Lady Cicely Waynflete proceeds to dismantle his revenge plot, manage the pirate crew, charm the local authorities, and generally demonstrate that competent feminine pragmatism defeats romantic masculine posturing at every turn. Written as a vehicle for Ellen Terry, the play is less philosophically serious than Shaw's best work but supremely entertaining, and Lady Cicely is one of his most delightful heroines.