Arms and the Man, Shaw George Bernard

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 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
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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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 Bernard George
Название: Saint Joan
ISBN: 0140437916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140437911
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 7910.00 T
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Описание: One of Shaw`s most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw`s views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Pygmalion (Annotated)
ISBN: 1074070410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781074070410
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Цена: 8610.00 T
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Описание: The story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics 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 teaching...

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Caesar and Cleopatra: Large Print
ISBN: 1081383666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781081383664
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 11490.00 T
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Описание: Set in Egypt, Caesar and Cleopatra, is a drama in which the 50-year-old Roman general meets the childish young Queen and exerts a fatherly influence on her.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Mrs. Warren`s Profession
ISBN: 1644392372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644392379
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Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter. It is a problem play, offering social commentary to illustrate Shaw's belief that the act of prostitution was not caused by moral failure but by economic necessity. Elements of the play were borrowed from Shaw's 1882 novel Cashel Byron's Profession, about a man who becomes a boxer due to limited employment opportunities. (wikipedia.org)

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: Pygmalion
ISBN: 164439233X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644392331
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Описание:

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: Cashel Byron`s Profession: Large Print
ISBN: 1078317348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781078317344
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Цена: 10330.00 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.

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: How He Lied To Her Husband
ISBN: 1082569631 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781082569630
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 6830.00 T
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Описание: How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage framework by filling it in with an observed touch of actual humanity instead of with doctrinaire romanticism." The play has often been interpreted as a kind of satirical commentary on Shaw's own highly successful earlier play Candida (which one of the characters gets tickets to see). "Now if you only knew the least little thing about the world, Henry, you'd know that in a large family, though the sisters quarrel with one another like mad all the time, yet let one of the brothers marry, and they all turn on their unfortunate sister-in-law and devote the rest of their lives with perfect unanimity to persuading him that his wife is unworthy of him. They can do it to her very face without her knowing it."

Автор: Shaw George Bernard
Название: The Miraculous Revenge
ISBN: 1085961966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781085961967
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Цена: 9190.00 T
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Описание: Recounting the misadventures of an alcoholic investigator while he probes the mystery of a graveyard-full of saintly corpses-that migrate across a stream to escape association with the body of a newly buried sinner..."A strange sight arrested me on the landing of the grand staircase. Through an open door I saw the moonlight shining through the windows of a saloon in which some entertainment had recently taken place. I looked at my watch again: it was but one o'clock and yet the guests had departed. I entered the room, my boots ringing loudly on the waxed boards. On a chair lay a child's cloak and a broken toy."