Bernard Shaw
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In 1900 Bernard Shaw completed the difficult task of drafting the Fabian's society position in the manifest Fabianism and the Empire. The society's progressive program advocated for socialist values, social justice and women rights. Against the background of these modern and leftist values though, the society's position on imperialism is somehow astonishing. One of the motives for its supportive stand on imperialism lies in the yet valid division...
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Pigmalión, obra escrita por George Bernard Shaw, es una aguda crítica social sobre las clases, el lenguaje y la transformación. A través de la historia de Eliza Doolittle, una joven florista de clase baja que se transforma en una dama de la alta sociedad bajo la tutela del profesor Henry Higgins, Shaw expone cómo el lenguaje y las apariencias pueden ser herramientas de poder y control en una sociedad profundamente estratificada.
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Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is a witty and thought-provoking play that explores themes of social class, transformation, and the power of language. First performed in 1913, the play remains one of Shaw's most celebrated works, blending comedy with sharp social critique.
The story follows Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics expert, who makes a bet with his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can transform a poor flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined...
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Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "a dramatic delight," George Bernard Shaw's only tragedy traces the life of the peasant girl who led French troops to victory over the English in the Hundred Years' War. An avid socialist, Shaw regarded his writing as a vehicle for promoting his political and humanitarian views and exposing hypocrisy. With Saint Joan, he reached the height of his fame, and it was this play that led to his Nobel Prize in Literature for 1925....
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In the preface, Shaw speaks of the pervasive discouragement and poverty in Europe after World War I, and relates these issues to inept government. Simple primitive societies, he says, were easily governable while the civilised societies of the twentieth century are so complex that learning to govern them properly can't be accomplished within the human lifespan: People with experience enough to serve the purpose fall into senility and die. Shaw's solution...
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Using intriguing characters and sparkling dialogue, George Bernard Shaw explored ideas and issues that transformed the conventions of British theater. "Don Juan in Hell" showcases the master's art at its best. An episode from Act Three of Man and Superman, "Don Juan in Hell" is often presented independently of the rest of the play. Rooted in the Don Juan legend--particularly as it appears in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--this dream sequence forms a...
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 19
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
1953
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473 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
10) Seven plays
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Dodd, Mead
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English
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These plays are included in this volume: Caesar and Cleopatra, Mrs. Warren's Profession; Arms and the Man; Candida; saint Joan; Man and Superman and the Devil's Disiple.
13) Saint Joan
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Modern library of the world's best books volume 294
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English
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The scripts and commentaries on three of Shaw's most popular plays: "Saint Joan," "Major Barbara," and "Androcles and the Lion."
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A Penguin book volume Q29
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1962
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152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English