Captain Brassbound's Conversion

In the sunlit port of Mogador, a calm Scottish missionary and a swaggering sailor-prickly with jokes, pretensions, and half-truths—open a world of colonial uncertainty, moral argument, and sudden danger. When Sir Howard Hallam and the lively Lady Cicely Waynflete arrive, the garden becomes a stage for wit, suspicion, and buried history. Rankin's hard-won knowledge of Morocco clashes with Lady Cicely's fearless curiosity, while Sir Howard's guarded manner and talk of a long-ago West Indian inheritance expose a legacy of legal cunning and colonial injustice. The tension sharpens when Captain Brassbound is revealed to be the same man as the smuggler Black Paquito, and then turns explosive as he accuses Sir Howard of ruining his mother and stealing his family's estate. Brassbound claims local justice will answer where English law will not, setting revenge against authority and exposing the thin line between civilization and lawlessness. Yet Lady Cicely meets his fury with composure, humor, and compassion, even mending his coat as she challenges his certainty. In this sharp, morally charged drama, Shaw pits law, empire, family grievance, and human sympathy against one another with relentless wit. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.