An Unsocial Socialist: Large Print, Shaw George Bernard

Автор: Shaw Bernard George
Название: Pygmalion
ISBN: 0141439505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141439501
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Описание: Shaw`s dramatization of a Cockney flower girl`s metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women`s independence.

Автор: Shaw Bernard George
Название: Heartbreak House
ISBN: 0140437878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437874
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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 Bernard George
Название: Plays Unpleasant
ISBN: 0140437932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437935
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Описание: Includes the plays "Widowers` Houses", "The Philanderer", and "Mrs Warren`s Profession".

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

Автор: Shaw, George Bernard
Название: Caesar and Cleopatra
ISBN: 0143039776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143039778
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "Caesar and Cleopatra" satirizes Shakespeare s use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw s own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.

Автор: Shaw Bernard George
Название: Man and Superman
ISBN: 0140437886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437881
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Описание: Explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and the author`s theory of Creative Evolution. This title intends to expose the eternal struggle between the sexes.

Автор: Shaw, George Bernard
Название: Pygmalion
ISBN: 1416500405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416500407
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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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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Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Misalliance
ISBN: 1420941275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420941272
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Описание: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot, and would go on to address this in many of his works. In 1876, Shaw joined his mother in London where he would finally attain literary success. Written the first decade of the twentieth century, "Misalliance" is a sort of continuation of another of Shaw's play, "Getting Married". Set over the course of an afternoon, this play furthers Shaw's opinion that divorce should be an easily attainable thing.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: The Philanderer
ISBN: 0368481239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780368481239
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Описание: The Philanderer is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1893 but the strict British Censorship laws at the time meant that it was not produced on stage until 1902. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898, alongside Widowers' Houses and Mrs Warren's Profession. The volume was written to raise awareness of social problems and criticize capitalist behaviour. The influence of Naturalist playwrights is evident by Shaw's constant reference to Ibsen in the play. The Naturalist theatre movement was a reaction to Melodrama, the Victorian theatre tradition of the time. Shaw wrote two endings for this play; the first ending, with divorce as its main theme, was discarded on the advice of a friend, the second ending resulting in a more conventional marriage. It is the latter that is usually performed or published, though the former is the more in keeping with Shaw's tendencies to criticize contemporary society.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Caesar and Cleopatra
ISBN: 6059654002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786059654005
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Цена: 24510.00 T
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Caesar is alone at night in the Egyptian desert, apostrophizing a statue of the Sphinx. Caesar is startled when a young girl, Cleopatra, addresses him from the paws of the Sphinx. He climbs up to her, thinking he is dreaming. She is full of superstitions about cats and Nile water. She tells Caesar she is there because the Romans are coming to eat her people. Caesar sees that he is not dreaming and identifies himself to Cleopatra as a Roman. She is terror-stricken, but Caesar tells her that he will eat her unless she can show herself to him as a woman, not a girl. Cleopatra puts herself in the hands of this Roman and they move to her throne room. Caesar tries to persuade Cleopatra to act like a queen; Ftatateeta enters and begins to order Cleopatra about until the nurse is chased from the room. Caesar orders Cleopatra's servants to dress her in her royal robes. When Roman soldiers enter and salute Caesar, Cleopatra finally realizes who he is and, with a sob of relief, falls into his arms.

The ten-year-old king Ptolemy is delivering a speech from the throne in Alexandria, prompted by his tutor and guardian. Caesar enters and demands taxes, then calls for Cleopatra. Rufio reminds Caesar that there is a Roman army of occupation in Egypt, commanded by Achillas and supporting the Egyptians, while Caesar has only four thousand men. Achillas and Pothinus suggest that they hold the upper hand, but when Roman troops enter, the Egyptians back off. Lucius Septimius and Pothinus remind Caesar that they decapitated Pompey to ingratiate themselves with Caesar, who is horrified to hear of the act. All the Egyptians but Ptolemy leave, and Rufio again protests against Caesar's clemency. Ptolemy is escorted out. Cleopatra and Caesar discuss how much Cleopatra has grown, and Caesar promises to send strong young Mark Antony to Cleopatra. A wounded Roman soldier enters to inform Caesar that the Roman army of occupation has come; Caesar orders that all the ships be burned except those that are to carry the Romans to the lighthouse on an island in the harbor. As Caesar starts to arm himself, Pothinus enters, followed by Theodotus with the news that the great library in Alexandria is burning. After Pothinus and Theodotus leave, Cleopatra helps Caesar put on his armor and makes fun of his baldness. Caesar and Rufio leave to lead the troops to the Pharos.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Saint Joan
ISBN: 6057861841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786057861849
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Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts and decided that the concerned people acted in good faith according to their beliefs.

Scene I

A fine spring morning on the river Meuse, between Lorraine and Champagne, in the year 1429 A.D., in the castle of Vaucouleurs.

Captain Robert de Baudricourt, a military squire, handsome and physically energetic, but with no will of his own, is disguising that defect in his usual fashion by storming terribly at his steward, a trodden worm, scanty of flesh, scanty of hair, who might be any age from 18 to 55, being the sort of man whom age cannot wither because he has never bloomed.

The two are in a sunny stone chamber on the first floor of the castle. At a plain strong oak table, seated in chair to match, the captain presents his left profile. The steward stands facing him at the other side of the table, if so deprecatory a stance as his can be called standing. The mullioned thirteenth-century window is open behind him. Near it in the corner is a turret with a narrow arched doorway leading to a winding stair which descends to the courtyard. There is a stout fourlegged stool under the table, and a wooden chest under the window.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: You Never Can Tell
ISBN: 0368440575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780368440571
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Цена: 7350.00 T
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Описание: You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's plays entitled Plays Pleasant. In June 2011, the play was revived at the Coliseum Theatre in Aberystwyth, Wales, where it had been performed exactly one century earlier. The play is set in a seaside town and tells the story of Mrs Clandon and her three children, Dolly, Phillip and Gloria, who have just returned to England after an eighteen-year stay in Madeira.