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Download or read book Major Barbara written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara is one of the most beloved plays by Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw. The story explores the life of an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, committed to helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For several years, Barbara and her siblings have been distant from their father, Andrew Undershaft. But things take a turn when he reappears in their life as a wealthy and successful ammunition maker.
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Download or read book Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Major Barbara" by George Bernard Shaw. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Major Barbara by : George Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara is a three-act play that premiered at the Court Theatre in 1905, and was subsequently published in 1907. It portrays idealist Barbara Undershaft, a Major in the Salvation Army, and her encounter with her long-estranged father who has made his fortune as a "dealer of death" in the munitions industry. Barbara doesn't wish to be associated with her father's ill-gotten wealth, but can't prevent him from donating to the Salvation Army and eventually converting her family to his capitalist views on how best to help the poor. In the preface, Shaw addresses his critics and explicates his actual attitudes towards the Salvation Army, versus the attitudes and fates portrayed by his characters and responded to by the critics. He continues on to discuss the issues of wealth and poverty, religion and science, and how they all fit into his views of society. Major Barbara is one of the most controversial of Shaw's work and was greeted with decidedly mixed reviews, yet it endures as one of his most famous plays.
Download or read book Major Barbara written by Bernard Shaw and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-24 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara. Bernard Shaw. Major Barbara is a three act play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. An Officer of The Salvation Army, Major Barbara Undershaft, becomes disillusioned when her Christian denomination accepts money from an armaments manufacturer (her father) and a whisky distiller. She eventually decides that bringing a message of salvation to people who have plenty will be more fulfilling and genuine than converting the starving in return for bread. Although Barbara initially regards the Salvation Army's acceptance of Undershaft's money as hypocrisy, Shaw did not intend that it should be thought so by the audience. Shaw wrote a preface for the play's publication, in which he derided the idea that charities should only take money from "morally pure" sources. He points out that donations can always be used for good, whatever their provenance, and he quotes a Salvation Army officer, "they would take money from the devil himself and be only too glad to get it out of his hands and into God's."
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Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Plays written by Bernard Shaw and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1970 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the texts of four plays with contemporary and modern critical essays and notes on the playwright
Book Synopsis Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by : Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics" by Bernard Shaw. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book Major Barbara (Annotated) written by Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara is a three-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends Major Barbara, who does not want to be connected to his "tainted" wealth. However, the father argues that poverty is a worse problem than munitions, and claims that he is doing more to help society by giving his workers jobs and a steady income than Major Barbara is doing to help them by giving them bread and soup. This 1905 play was written before society had fully experienced the vast human cost exacted by industrially produced weapons in modern warfare, as would subsequently be the case in World Wars I and II.
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Download or read book Major Barbara (Illustrated) written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends Major Barbara, who does not want to be connected to his "tainted" wealth. However, the father argues that poverty is a worse problem than munitions, and claims that he is doing more to help society by giving his workers jobs and a steady income than Major Barbara is doing to help them by giving them bread and soup.
Download or read book Major Barbara written by Bernard Shaw and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two things necessary to salvation ... money and gunpowder" Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw's story of the conversion contest between the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his daughter, the Salvation Army Major, is a provocative dramatization of the relationship between money, power, and moral purpose. A landmark in the history of British theatre when first produced at the Royal Court in 1905, it remains strikingly relevant today, when recent history has repeatedly highlighted the power of the arms industry in shaping government policy, and globalization has accentuated the political and ethical issues of social welfare and international capital raised by the play. This edition includes Shaw's definitive text and provides the most comprehensive scholarly treatment of the play to date. A lengthy Introduction traces the history of the text from manuscript drafts to the famous 1941 wartime film version starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison and on to modern stagings. It reveals Major Barbara as one of Shaw's most exciting and challenging plays for actors, directors, and readers.
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Download or read book Bernard Shaw Collection - Major Barbara and Preface to Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw. Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy weapons trader, despises poverty believing "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty...our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor." His daughter, Barbara, devotes herself to charity. When a shelter for the poor is at risk of closure due to lack of funds, the idealistic Barbara, a Major in the Salvation Army must reassess her beliefs and opinions about wealth, poverty and philanthropy. In many of his plays, Shaw writes a preface for the reader which, in some cases, has very little to do with the play itself, but, in some cases, as with Major Barbara, it comments directly on the ideas found in the play. And as with this play, the prefaces are often rather lengthy and are divided into sections.
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Download or read book Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.
Book Synopsis Major Barbara (Esprios Classics) by : George Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Major Barbara (Esprios Classics) written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal schooling, he educated himself by independent study in the reading room of the British Museum; he also began his career there by writing novels for which he could not find a publisher. His first success was as a music and literary critic, but he was drawn to drama and authored more than sixty plays during his career. Typically his work is leavened by a delightful vein of comedy, but nearly all of it bears earnest messages. He remains the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (1938) for Pygmalion.
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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Britomart Undershaft, the daughter of a British earl, and her son Stephen discuss a source of income for her grown daughters Sarah, who is engaged to Charles Lomax, and Barbara, who is engaged to Adolphus Cusins. Lady Britomart leads Stephen to accept her decision that they must ask her estranged husband, Andrew Undershaft, for financial help. Mr. Undershaft is a successful and wealthy businessman who has made millions of pounds from his munitions factory, which manufactures the world-famous Undershaft guns, cannons, torpedoes, submarines and aerial battleships.When their children were still small, the Undershafts separated; now grown, the children have not seen their father since, and Lady Britomart has raised them by herself. During their reunion, Undershaft learns that Barbara is a major in The Salvation Army who works at their shelter in West Ham, east London. Barbara and Mr. Undershaft agree that he will visit Barbara's Army shelter, if she will then visit his munitions factory.
Download or read book Major Barbara written by George Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends Major Barbara, who does not want to be connected to his "tainted" wealth. However, the father argues that poverty is a worse problem than munitions, and claims that he is doing more to help society by giving his workers jobs and a steady income than Major Barbara is doing to help them by giving them bread and soup.
Book Synopsis Plays by George Bernard Shaw by : George Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Plays by George Bernard Shaw written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd
Book Synopsis Preface to Major Barbara by : George Bernard Shaw
Download or read book Preface to Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many of his plays, Shaw writes a preface for the reader which, in some cases, has very little to do with the play itself, but, in some cases, as with Major Barbara, it comments directly on the ideas found in the play. And as with this play, the prefaces are often rather lengthy and are divided into sections.
