“Overruled” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Overruled is a comic one-act play written by George Bernard Shaw. In Shaw’s words, it is about ‘how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it.’ The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships.