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"Pygmalion and Three Other Plays," by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the ""Barnes & Noble Classics" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble ...
The third and final volume of Michael Holroyd's Olympian biography of George Bernard Shaw, The Lure of Fantasy brings the magnificent live of Shaw to a triumphant climax. Volume 3 opens with Shaw's impassioned (and unheeded) campaign for a just peace after World War I, and ends some three decades later with his death at age 95. Holroyd brings to ...
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Bernard Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. This biography of Bernard Shaw presents a portrait of an age and a man who was born 50 years too soon.
This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work-Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion.
Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian and charmer, Shaw was a controversial literary figure, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Holroyd has cut his huge biography to a manageable single-volume life - the definitive Shaw for general readers and students alike.
Eric Bentley's masterful look at George Bernard Shaw was first published over 50 years ago, and time has only strengthened the conviction of his ideas and arguments about shaw. Bentley's success is in reconsidering shaw in the wake of the vast reams of critical analysis and social history compiled about Shaw in the last century. He looks at shaw ...
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while ...
A Nell Bray mystery set in Edwardian London, where the staging of George Bernard Shaw's new comedy, a feminist reworking of "Cinderella", results in murder. The fearless lady sleuth follows a trail which takes in a raunchy East End club, a primitive flying machine and a beautiful Queen Anne house.
"One of the most shattering and upsetting stories I have read for a long time. I certainly finished it feeling as if I had watched and earthquake. The final irony is that Pascal's last mad idea was a musical based on PYGMALION. He broke himself--and several others--keeping up the option payments on it. One day Pascal looked at his wife's hand and ...
The first of three volumes on the life of George Bernard Shaw, covering the last half of the 19th century. "First-rate . . . there should be no need for another biography of (Shaw) for perhaps a century".--The New York Times Book Review. 32 pages of photographs.
CONTENTS Credentials by Bernard Shaw - Introduction by Frank Harris - Shaw, Then and Now - Ireland in the Sixties - The Genteel Shaws - His Mother's People - The Innocent Triangle - Boyhood in Dublin - And So to Work - Lean Years in London - The Critic - Seeing Red - The Playwright - Censors - Theatre Vicissitudes - Shaw's Women - The Male Flirt ...
This is the second volume of a set of three on the life of Bernard Shaw which starts at the beginning of Shaw's marriage in 1898 and finishes at the end of the First World War. This is the period of his middle plays, including "Caesar and Cleopatra","Man and Superman", "Major Barbara", of his theatrical partnership with Granville-Barker at the ...
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