Pygmalion: A Fantastic Story of Drama (Annotated) By George Bernard Shaw., Bernard Shaw George

Автор: Shaw Bernard George
Название: Heartbreak House
ISBN: 0140437878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437874
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: This play is centred around the eccentric household of Captain Shotover where, at a house-party, the main topic of debate is one young woman`s decision to marry for money rather than love.

Автор: Shaw, George Bernard
Название: Pygmalion
ISBN: 1416500405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416500407
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 4560.00 T
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Описание: Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship
An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.
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• A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
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• Detailed explanatory notes
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Series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson

Автор: Shaw Bernard George
Название: Plays Pleasant
ISBN: 0140437940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437942
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Includes the plays "Arms and the Man", "The Man of Destiny", and "You Never Can Tell".

Автор: Shaw Bernard George
Название: Plays Unpleasant
ISBN: 0140437932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437935
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Includes the plays "Widowers` Houses", "The Philanderer", and "Mrs Warren`s Profession".

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Pygmalion (Wisehouse Classics Edition) (2016)
ISBN: 9176374440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789176374443
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 20250.00 T
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Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Arms and the Man
ISBN: 108152524X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781081525248
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Цена: 19530.00 T
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Описание: Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play. It is a comedy about idealized love versus true love. A young Serbian woman idealizes her war-hero fiance and thinks the Swiss soldier who begs her to hide him a terrible coward. After the war she reverses her opinions, though the tangle of relationships must be resolved before her ex-soldier can conclude the last of everyone's problems with Swiss exactitude. The play premiered to an enthusiastic reception. Only one man booed Shaw at the end, to which Shaw replied: 'My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?'

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Pygmalion
ISBN: 1081664134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781081664138
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Цена: 22980.00 T
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Описание: This play is based on the Greek myth of Pygmalion. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics (based on phonetician Henry Sweet), who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can successfully pass off a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a refined society lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette. In the process, Higgins and Doolittle grow close, but she ultimately rejects his domineering ways and declares she will marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill - a young, poor, gentleman. Adapted for film under the title of 'My Fair Lady'.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Man And Superman
ISBN: 1081525363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781081525361
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 45970.00 T
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Описание: After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. Believing marriage would prevent him from achieving his higher intellectual and political ambitions, Tanner is horrified to discover that Ann intends to marry him, and flees to Spain with the determined young woman in hot pursuit. The chase even leads them to the underworld, where the characters' alter egos discuss questions of human nature and philosophy in a lively debate in a scene often performed separately as 'Don Juan in Hell'. In Man and Superman, Shaw combined seriousness with comedy to create a satirical and buoyant expos of the eternal struggle between the sexes.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: The Man of Destiny
ISBN: 1689463139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781689463133
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 12770.00 T
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Описание: The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, Candida and You Never Can Tell.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Man and Superman
ISBN: 1644392364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644392362
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra.

... In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left--he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life he made fewer public statements, but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946.

Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion about his works has varied, but he has regularly been rated among British dramatists as second only to Shakespeare; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word Shavian has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them. (wikipedia.org)

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Candida
ISBN: 108120866X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781081208660
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 18380.00 T
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Описание: Delve into a hilarious examination of Victorian love, manners, morals, and marriage written by the author of Pygmalion. In Candida, George Bernard Shaw gives us the story of the misbegotten love triangle that springs up between a reverend, his putatively prim and proper wife, and a love-struck and starry-eyed young poet.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Cashel Byron`s Profession: Large Print
ISBN: 1080903372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781080903375
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Цена: 11490.00 T
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Описание: After poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous prizefighter of his age, only to be floored himself by the lovely and impossible Lydia Carew. Can Lydia, with her reputation for vast learning and exquisite culture, be wooed by the ruffian Cashel? Can Cashel successfully hide his illegal professional? And so follows, with Shaw's inimitable wit and sparkle, a tale of miscommunication, drawing-room comedy and love.