Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He was strongly critical of London theatre and closely associated with the intellectual revival of British drama. Dan H. Laurence has edited Shaw »s Collected Letters and Collected Plays with their Prefaces. He was Literary Advisor to the Shaw Estate until his retirement in 1990. Margery Morgan is an Emeritus Reader in English of Lancaster University.
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George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman
Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century’s intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron’s verse satire, but also on S …
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George Bernard Shaw: Plays Unpleasant
With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences’ complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic r …
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George Bernard Shaw: Heartbreak House
When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain’s forthright daughter Hesio …
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George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan
One of Shaw’s most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the …
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George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara
Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw.Androcles and the Lion is Shaw’s retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny’s First Play
A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama was how Desmond Mac Carthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America s Wild West and aptly subtitled A Sermon in Crude Melodrama , this single-act …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Doctor’s Dilemma
Shaw’s humorous satire of the medical profession. …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Plays Political
While some of Shaw s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, fran …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Plays Extravagant
This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles". …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling
This volume features the play Misalliance, which explores the incongruities of human nature and family life, and Shaw’s one-act burlesque, The Fascinating Foundling. …
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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw: Last Plays
In Good King Charles’s Golden Days: a true history that never happened. A discussion play; the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II (‘Mr Rowley’), Isaac Newton, …
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