Plays by George Bernard ShawGeorge 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 |
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Arms and the | |
Candida | |
Man and Superman | |
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THE REVOLUTIONISTS HANDBOOK AND POCKET COMPANION | |
G B S AN ACTORS APPRECIATION | |
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arms beauty become believe better BLUNTSCHLI BURGESS CANDIDA CATHERINE chair character comes course CROFTS dear DEVIL difference Don Juan don’t door Eugene eyes face father feel follows force FRANK girl give goes half hand happy head hear heaven HECTOR hope human it’s Jack James keep lady least leave live looks LOUKA MALONE MARCHBANKS marriage marry matter mean MENDOZA mind Miss moral MORELL mother natural never OCTAVIUS once person PETKOFF play political poor PRAED present produced PROSERPINE RAINA RAMSDEN respectable rising sense SERGIUS Shaw sits social sort speak stand STATUE stop STRAKER suppose sure talk TANNER Tavy tell things thought told true turns understand VIOLET VIVIE WARREN WHITEFIELD woman women young