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In Jacques Derrida's "The Law of Genre", his opposition with generic exclusivity is materialized through "law" and "counter law" concepts. He believes that the best position for enunciating any kind of generic specification would be an aporetic position between "law" and "counter law" positions. In the present study, the ambivalent position of George Bernard Shaw's plays towards the institution of marriage will be studied though utilization of such Derridean theoretical framework. For materialization of the theoretical framework, a number of French well-made plays will be considered so that their endogamic and exogamic positions towards the issue of marriage can be regarded as the "law" and "counter law" Derridean positions. Taking these fixed and unitary positions in French well-made plays into account, Shaw's ambivalent regard towards the institution of marriage will be positioned in the aporetic space between endogamic and exogamic positions. In the present study, Shaw's mastery of well-made techniques will be explicated and at the same time, his escape from those techniques will be represented. Such escape depicts Shaw's critical attitude towards intellectual, social and religious trends of his contemporary time

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