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  • Saint Joan

    Saint Joan stands out among George Bernard Shaw's plays. He's best known for drawing-room plays exploring social issues; here he writes something closer to a Shakespearean history play, following the fifteenth-century French national hero Joan of Arc through her campaigns and beyond. Shaw's preface to the play argues that other tellings of Joan's story do her a disservice by idealizing her and ... Read more

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  • Back To Methuselah

    George Bernard Shaw published this series of five linked plays in a single volume in 1921. It was first performed in 1922 in New York. We begin in the year 4004 BC. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve discover death, and a serpent teaches them what it is to conceive new life. It is the early twentieth century. The brothers Barnabas are discussing the political need for people to live for three ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    A Brilliant Classic That Remains Strikingly Relevant TodayPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is one of the most celebrated plays of modern English literature, a brilliant comedy of manners that explores language, class, identity, education, and social transformation with wit and intelligence.Shaw based his 1913 play on the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion, the sculptor who despised women but fell ... Read more

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  • Major Barbara

    “Major Barbara” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession

    George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925. Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady. This edition of Mrs. Warren’s Profession includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    A Play

    The most successful play by the Nobel Prize–winning Irish playwright, and basis for the movie and Broadway musical My Fair Lady.Based on the Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, George Bernard Shaw's witty adaptation features linguistic expert Professor Henry Higgins, who encounters a cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle. Boasting that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess by teaching her ... Read more

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  • A Deep Dive into Feminism: A 26-Book Collection

    Classic Essays, Fiction, and Suffrage Voices on Rights, Education, Marriage, and Social Change

    A Deep Dive into Feminism: A 26-Book Collection gathers essays, polemics, fiction, utopian speculation, social criticism, and political argument into a capacious history of feminist thought. Moving from early modern challenges to patriarchal authority through suffrage-era advocacy and twentieth-century reimaginings of work, marriage, sexuality, and citizenship, it reveals feminism as a contested, ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

    Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Warren's Profession

    "Mrs. Warren's Profession" explores social issues, particularly the position of women in society, gender roles, and the ethical implications of the sex trade. The play revolves around the relationship between Vivie Warren, a young woman who has recently graduated from university, and her mother, Mrs. Kitty Warren, who is a former prostitute turned brothel owner.The conflict arises as Vivie, who is ... Read more

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  • The Thoughts and Studies of G. Bernard Shaw: Personal Letters, Articles, Lectures & Essays

    Enriched edition. The New Theology, Maxims For Revolutionists, The Impossibilities Of Anarchism…

    George Bernard Shaw's 'The Thoughts and Studies of G. Bernard Shaw: Personal Letters, Articles, Lectures & Essays' is a collection of the author's insightful and thought-provoking writings. Shaw, known for his wit and wisdom, explores various social, political, and cultural issues of his time through his unique literary style which combines satire and criticism. The book provides a glimpse into ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House

    This vintage book contains George Bernard Shaw's 1919 play, "Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes". Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé attend one of Hesione Hushabye's notorious dinner parties. However, Ellie's partner is a rake, her father is an idiot, and she has amorous feelings for Hesione's husband. It is an adventurous farrago of comedy, tragedy, and ... Read more

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  • The Collected Plays (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Anti-romantic comedies, political dramas, and social satire—from Widowers' Houses to Pygmalion—with Chesterton's essay

    The Collected Plays (Illustrated) gathers George Bernard Shaw's dramatic achievement in a form that foregrounds both his verbal brilliance and theatrical imagination. From the anti-romantic satire of Arms and the Man to the social provocations of Mrs Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan, these plays combine sparkling dialogue, paradox, moral argument, and comic disruption. ... Read more

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