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Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198793286
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre.Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time of its premiere in Vienna 1913 and it has remained popular to this day. Shaw was awarded an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of the film adaptation. It was, of course, later made into the much-loved musical My Fair Lady.Heartbreak House (1917), which was finally performed in 1920 and published in 1921, bares the hallmarks of European modernism and a formal break from Shaw's previous work. A meditation on the war and the resultant decline in European aristocratic culture, it was perhaps staged too soon after theconflict; indeed, it did not have the success of his earlier works, which was likely due to his experimental aesthetics combined with a war-weary audience that sought lighter fare. However, while this contemporary reception was muted, it is now recognised as a modernist masterpiece.Saint Joan (1923) marked Shaw's resurrection and apotheosis. The first major work written of Joan of Arc after her canonization (1920), the play interrogates the origins of European nationalism in the post-war era. Like Pygmalion, it was an immediate world-wide hit and secured Shaw the Nobel Prizefor Literature in 1925. Drawing upon the transcripts of Joan's trial, Shaw blended his trademark wit to produce a hybrid genre of comedy and history play. Despite the historical setting, Saint Joan is highly accessible and continues to delight audiences.

Bernard Shaw's Plays

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393099423
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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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

Plays by George Bernard Shaw

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101157666
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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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

Four Plays: Candida, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion [and] Heartbreak House

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)

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Book Synopsis Four Plays: Candida, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion [and] Heartbreak House by : Bernard Shaw

Download or read book Four Plays: Candida, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion [and] Heartbreak House written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Saint Joan

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Joan written by Bernard Shaw and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Mermaids series is first choice for univeristy courses.

The Marriage of Contraries

Author : J. L. Wisenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674550858
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Contraries written by J. L. Wisenthal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.

CliffsNotes on Shaw's Major Barbara & St. Joan

Author : Jeffrey Fisher
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544182685
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book CliffsNotes on Shaw's Major Barbara & St. Joan written by Jeffrey Fisher and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

Heartbreak House

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473375002
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Heartbreak House written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains George Bernard Shaw's 1919 play, "Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes". Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé attend one of Hesione Hushabye's notorious dinner parties. However, Ellie's partner is a rake, her father is an idiot, and she has amorous feelings for Hesione's husband. It is an adventurous farrago of comedy, tragedy, and satire that can only lead to disaster. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics. Many antiquarian books like this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Heartbreak House

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1877527718
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Heartbreak House written by George Bernard Shaw and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy. Centering on a dinner party, held as Europe teeters on the brink of the First World War; Shaw's play is as much about the inexorable drift of the British gentry toward catastrophe as it is about the love triangle that seems to take centre stage.

1992, Shaw and the Last Hundred Years

Author : Bernard Frank Dukore
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271013244
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book 1992, Shaw and the Last Hundred Years written by Bernard Frank Dukore and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1892 the first production of Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, heralded the birth of modern drama in the English language. One hundred years later a group of Shavians gathered to examine the significance and influence of Shaw's drama in the English-speaking world. The conference, sponsored by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, brought together theater scholars, critics, and artists from Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States. The conference also featured productions of The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, The Man of Destiny, and Farfetched Tales, each followed by a symposium. The centennial conference not only marked the importance of the event but also stimulated new ways of regarding that historic moment, reexaminations of the significance of Shaw's plays, and explorations of their consequences. Some speakers reevaluated the genesis of the first production of Widowers' Houses and its social, cultural, and theatrical context. Some brought to bear on the subject of Shavian drama recent critical perspectives, such as feminism, deconstructionism, and the type of close textual and intertextual scrutiny seldom accorded Shaw. Others explored his impact in England, America, Ireland, and the Antipodes. Still others examined the relationship of comedy and ideas, subtext, and how this Victorian dramatist remains pertinent today. The conference concluded with a symposium that aimed to assess what might lie ahead for Shaw on page and stage in the next hundred years. This volume records the proceedings of the conference as well as reviews and the continuing checklist of Shaviana. Contributors are Peter Barnes, Charles A. Berst, Montgomery Davis, Bernard F. Dukore, Martin Esslin, Joanne E. Gates, Nicholas Grene, Christopher Innes, Katherine E. Kelly, Frederick P. W. McDowell, Rhoda Nathan, Christopher Newton, Michael O'Hara, Jean Reynolds, Irving Wardle, Stanley Weintraub, and J. L. Wisenthal.

Heartbreak House and Misalliance

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780553214420
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Heartbreak House and Misalliance written by Bernard Shaw and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1995 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heartbreak House, a visit to an eccentric gentleman's home reveals surprises in gender and identity, while in Misalliance, an underwear tycoon and his daughter find adventure after a plane crash. Reissue.

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

Author : L. W. Conolly
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031042417
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw on the American Stage written by L. W. Conolly and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was America’s most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outnumbered only by Shakespeare. Forty-four of Shaw’s plays were staged in America before his death, eight more posthumously. Eleven of the productions were world premieres. Bernard Shaw on the American Stage tells the story of the fifty-two premieres, which, apart from a few fragments, is his total dramatic oeuvre. The book also includes, again for the first time, production data and concise overviews of dozens of the most notable American revivals of the plays, from the 1890s to the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. Illustrations—production photographs, programmes, theatre buildings, playbills, actors’ studio portraits— inform the study throughout.

Saint Joan

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486836630
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Saint Joan written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In the six centuries since her martyrdom, Joan of Arc has inspired artists, musicians, and writers. Shaw's heroine is unlike any previous interpretation — not a witch, saint, or madwoman but a pre-feminist icon, possessed of innate intelligence and leadership qualities that challenge the authority of church and state. She is also a real human being, warm and sincere, whose flaws include an obstinacy that leads to her undoing. This edition includes a substantial, informative Preface by the author.

George Bernard Shaw: a Very Short Introduction

Author : Christopher Wixson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198850093
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw: a Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Wixson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Wixson introduces George Bernard Shaw, the greatest playwright in English after Shakespeare. Taking a chronological approach through his works, he provides an overview of Shaw's sensibility as a writer, and studies the creative evolution of core themes and styles throughout his long career.

Heartbreak House

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Heartbreak House written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Heartbreak House" 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.

Bernard Shaw on Theater

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795346883
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw on Theater written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the popular theater in the late nineteenth century, Shaw relentlessly campaigned for audiences, actors, theater managers, and even government officials to take theater more seriously, to use the stage as a forum for representing complex real issues such as poverty, marriage and divorce laws, sexual attraction, gender equality, and political power, so that through seeing them acted out, audiences could better understand and address them when they left the theater. Shaw’s commitment to social reform through theater was matched by his expertise in the artistic and practical aspects of drama: whether he was reviewing productions, lecturing about acting, or schooling agents on royalties and copyright law, Shaw set a standard for intelligent professionalism that our own theaters might still aspire to and be measured against. The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.

The Theatre Guide

Author : Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408103133
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre Guide written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.