A Lancashire Comedy in Four Acts by Harold Brighouse
Characters in order of speaking:
ACT I. - The interior of Hobson's Bootshop in Chapel Street, Salford.
Act II. - The same.
Act III. - A room in a cellar in Oldfield Road
Act IV. - Hobson's living-room

Here is a lively domestic drama of 'take it or leave it' in the costume of the 'eighties.
Henry Horatio Hobson, a Salford tradesman, imagines that he can impose his choice on the world at large, including his family. But Maggie, his equally uncompromising, but much clearer-sighted, daughter, succeeds in convincing him, and everybody else, that 'Hobson's Choice' is Maggie Hobson's choice.