In Good King Charles’s Golden Days is a play by George Bernard Shaw subtitled A True History that Never Happened. It was written in 1938-39 as an educational history film for film director Gabriel Pascal in the aftermath of Pygmalion’s cinema triumph. The cast of the proposed film were to be sumptuously clothed in 17th century costumes far beyond the resources of most theatre managements.
author
George Bernard Shaw
character in play
George Fox, Godfrey Kneller, Isaac Newton, King Charles II, Louise de Kérouaille Duchess of Portsmouth, Nell Gwynn, Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland Queen Catherine of Braganza