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Author : Bernard Shaw
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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198828853
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw remains one of the world's most important and popular writers. His plays are regularly performed around the world, from the boards of Broadway and the West End to regional, community, and college stages.The three plays selected here are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre:Man and Superman: a four-act comedy for serious people, staged in part at Royal court in 1905, it is one of the early works of Modernism to take an ancient myth and restage it in contemporary mode (and its influence extends across world literature, palpable in writings from Mann to Joyce). Its storyof how a sensitive woman compels a superman-figure to adjust to her needs and those of the real world provides an updated commentary on Nietzsche's still-fashionable notions of ubermensch; and its famous third act introduces a persistent Shavian theme, which goes back as far as earliest religiousliterature-that the truly damned are those who are happy in hell.John Bull's Other Island takes up that idea: to the visionary, hell may be the ultimate modern dream of efficiency and rational administration, as manifested in a colonial Ireland run by liberal exploiters. Commissioned by WB Yeats to mark the opening of Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey, theplay was promptly refused by its Directors (who disliked its mechanical mockeries of mechanism but may have missed its visionary qualities). It was performed to huge acclaim in London in November 1904 and it made Shaw famous, the supreme example of the Playwright as Thinker and, ever afterwards,one of the most valued commentators on Anglo-Irish relations.Major Barbara: a three-act drama which in classic Shavian style unmasks the motivation of puritan idealists and dedicated industrialists, this work (like the previous two) pits a strong woman against a sardonic, practical man. Having exposed the mendacity of apostles of efficiency, Shaw seems thento submit to their doctrine, arguing that a pure private charity towards the destitute is no adequate substitute. Like the previous two works, this is a problem play, in the course of which the audience sympathy is aroused and then repelled in all directions. The suggestion that it may be acceptableto take money from tainted sources, such as arms manufacturers, caused much debate in 1905 - and even more after the carnage wrought by mechanized guns in World War One.
Author : Bernard Shaw
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)
Download or read book John Bull's Other Island written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Shaw
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 368 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.
Author : Bernard Shaw
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Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Bull's Other Island written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Bernard Shaw
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ISBN 13 : 9781774412381
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)
Download or read book John Bull's Other Island written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bull's Other Island is a comedy about Ireland, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1904. Shaw himself was born in Dublin, yet this is one of only two plays of his where he thematically returned to his homeland, the other being O'Flaherty V.C. The play was highly successful in its day, but is rarely revived, probably because so much of the dialogue is specific to the politics of the day. The play deals with Larry Doyle, originally from Ireland, but who has turned his back on his heritage to fit in with the English and Tom Broadbent, his English (and very Machiavellian) business partner. They are civil engineers who run a firm in London. They go to Roscullen, where Doyle was born, to develop some land.Doyle has no illusions about Ireland while Broadbent is taken with the romance of the place. Broadbent, a lively man who is seemingly not always aware of the impression he makes, becomes a favourite of the people. Before the play is over, it is clear he will marry Nora Reilly, the woman waiting for Doyle (who is more than happy to let her go) and become the area's candidate for Parliament after Doyle refuses to stand, but has also 'called in' all his loans given "so easily" to the locals against their homes and intends (as he had planned all along) to make the village into an amusement park.Another major character is the defrocked priest Peter (Father) Keegan, the political and temperamental opposite of Broadbent, who sees through him from the beginning and warns the locals against him.The play was commissioned by W.B. Yeats for the opening of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, but Yeats rejected it as too long and too difficult to produce. He claimed that no actors were available who could do justice to the part of Broadbent. Peter Kavanagh suggests that Yeats' real reason was dislike of Shaw's style of playwrighting: "at this time Yeats and Synge did not feel that Shaw belonged to the real Irish tradition. His plays would thus have no place in the Irish theatre movement
Author : Jean Reynolds
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030960714
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion written by Jean Reynolds and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls “the problem of language.” Nearly every character in Major Barbara produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins is Eliza’s acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershaft’s Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity? Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday lives—sometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them.
Author : Geoffrey West
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of the Books and Pamphlets of George Bernard Shaw written by Geoffrey West and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated the Print Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilfred Partington
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Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated The Print Collector written by Wilfred Partington and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Cannon Harris
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474424473
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions written by Susan Cannon Harris and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.
Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558778
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society written by Bryan Cheyette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with readings of the works of major contemporary authors, this study concludes that "the Jew" is characterized unstereotypically as the embodiment of uncertainty within English literature and society.
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Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Bernard Shaw
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ISBN 13 : 0198804989
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Playlets written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These highbrows must remember that there is a demand for little things as well as for big things'George Bernard Shaw was one of the leading playwrights and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He helped propel drama towards the unexpected, into a realm where it might shock audiences into new viewpoints and into fresh understandings of society. Throughout his longwriting career Shaw wrote short plays, ranging in length from 1000-word puppet play, Shakes Versus Shav, to the 12,000-word suffragette comedy, Press Cuttings. These plays can be taken to illuminate Shaw's life and legacy, from ideas about war and patriotism in O'Flaherty, V.C. to censorship in TheShewing up of Blanco Posset.Surveying Shaw's entire career of writing short dramas, focusing especially on those years when his work in the form was particularly prolific (around 1909 and during the First World War), this collection places Shaw's short plays broadly into four key areas: farces, historical sketches, war dramas,and Shakespearean shorts. For each of these areas, the volume explores Shaw's aesthetic and thematic concerns, the precise historical and generic contexts in which the works were written, the major criticism and scholarship that has subsequently emerged, and the most notable stage and screenproductions. This collection reveals how a playwright often criticized for being too wordy was actually a master of the short form.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802089615
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Bernard Shaw and His Publishers written by Bernard Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich selection of Shaw's correspondence with his US and UK publishers proves how much the dramatist lived up to his own words by providing the details of his steady involvement in the publication of his works.
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Play Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
