Plays Unpleasant
Title | Plays Unpleasant PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2015-06-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1473375282 |
This volume contains a small collection of plays written by Bernard Shaw. These thought-provoking plays aim to challenge the audience’s moral complacency apropos serious social issues and injustices. Unusual and intriguing, they will greatly appeal to fans of Shaw’s work. The plays contained herein include: “Widowers’ Houses”, “The Philanderer”, and “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Plays Unpleasant
Title | Plays Unpleasant PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2005-05-26 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0141914793 |
With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancée comes from her father's income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven - who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs Warren's Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother's immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing.
Plays Unpleasant
Title | Plays Unpleasant PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780140437935 |
Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw’s volume of “unpleasant” plays, Widowers’ Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession—part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences’ complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers’ Houses, depicts Harry Trench’s dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancée comes from her father’s income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven—who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs. Warren's Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother's immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing. This is the definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. This volume includes Shaw’s prefaces, cast lists from the first productions of the plays, and a list of his principal works.
George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction
Title | George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Wixson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-09-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0192590340 |
George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures seventy years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity. This Very Short Introduction looks at Shaw's life, starting with his upbringing in Ireland, and then takes a chronological approach through his works. Considering Shaw's committed antagonism on behalf of a range of socio-political issues; his use of comedy as a mode for communicating serious ideas; and his rhetorical style that pushes conventional boundaries, Christopher Wixson provides an overview of the creative evolution of core themes throughout Shaw's long career. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant
Title | Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
Plays
Title | Plays PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781494193553 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
Plays by George Bernard Shaw
Title | Plays by George Bernard Shaw PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2004-08-03 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1101157666 |
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