The Princess and the Butterfly

[3] [4][2]Princess Pannonia is the English-born wife of a Hungarian noble who has spent the last twenty years of her life living in the remote castle of Mornavitza.

[5]Dramatic Technique, By George Pierce Baker, 1919 In The Princess and the Butterfly, Act I not only disposes of preliminary necessary exposition, but depicts different kinds of restlessness in a group of women at or nearing middle age.

Act III complicates the story by showing that Fay is not the niece of Sir George, and illustrates the growing affection between the Princess and Edward Oriel.

[8] The Evening Standard found the play "at once fantastic and true to life … very much indeed of a love story for no fewer than three pairs of lovers are left on the verge of matrimony.

[11] Sources: Arthur Wing Pinero, Playwright: a Study by Hamilton Fyfe, 1902[12] and Plays of the Present by John Bouvé Clapp and Edwin Francis Edgett, 1902[13]