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  • TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN
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    TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN
    BERNARD SHAW
    A Treatise on Parents and Children is a classic family studies/parenting guide by the great Irish writer George Bernard Shaw that examines the parent/child relationship and contains the following excerpt: Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve ...

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  • ANDROCLES AND THE LION
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    ANDROCLES AND THE LION
    BERNARD SHAW
    Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed earl...

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  • BACK TO METHUSELAH, A METABIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH
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    BACK TO METHUSELAH, A METABIOLOGICAL PENTATEUCH
    BERNARD SHAW
    In the preface, Shaw speaks of the pervasive discouragement and poverty in Europe after World War I, and relates these issues to inept government. Simple primitive societies, he says, were easily governable while the civilised societies of the twentieth century are so complex that learning to govern them properly can't be accomplished within the human lifespan: People with expe...

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  • OVERRULED
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    OVERRULED
    BERNARD SHAW
    Overruled (1912) is a comic one-act play written by George Bernard Shaw. In Shaw's words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it." The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships....

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  • MAXIMS FOR REVOLUTIONISTS
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    MAXIMS FOR REVOLUTIONISTS
    BERNARD SHAW
    The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. Sort of pamphlet touching lot of areas such as democracy, education and marriage.Thought provoking book! (Goodreads) ...

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  • SAINT JOAN
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    SAINT JOAN
    BERNARD SHAW
    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 reflects Shaw's belief that the people involved in Joan's trial acted according to what they thought was right. ...

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  • GREAT CATHERINE (WHOM GLORY STILL ADORES)
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    GREAT CATHERINE (WHOM GLORY STILL ADORES)
    BERNARD SHAW
    Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores is a 1913 one-act play by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. It was written between two of his other 1913 plays, Pygmalion and The Music Cure. It tells the story of a prim British visitor to the court of the sexually uninhibited Catherine the Great of Russia. ...

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  • THE PHILANDERER
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    THE PHILANDERER
    BERNARD SHAW
    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 criticise ...

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  • DER AMATEUR-SOZIALIST
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    DER AMATEUR-SOZIALIST
    BERNARD SHAW
    Ausgestattet mit einem stattlichen väterlichen Erbe, gibt sich Sidney Trefusis als mittelloser Arbeiter aus und versucht sich als Sozialist. 1883 erscheint diese treffende Satire auf die Herrschenden des Viktorianischen Zeitalters als einer der ersten literarischen Texte von George Bernhard Shaw. ...

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  • CASHEL BYRONS BERUF
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    CASHEL BYRONS BERUF
    BERNARD SHAW
    Der Roman folgt Cashel Byron, einem Weltmeister-Preiskämpfer, der versucht, die wohlhabende Aristokratin Lydia Carew zu umwerben, ohne seinen illegalen Beruf preiszugeben. ...

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  • DIE TÖRICHTE HEIRAT
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    DIE TÖRICHTE HEIRAT
    BERNARD SHAW
    Wie in fast allen seinen Werken nimmt Shaw auch hier die englische Gesellschaft mit ihren starren und selbstgefälligen Formen unter die Lupe. Den Helden, einem "Mann aus dem Volke", gelingt es, durch Begabung, Willensstärke und untadeligen Charakter in die vornehmen Londoner Kreise einzudringen und eine Frau aus diesem Milieu für sich zu gewinnen. Sie folgt ihm gegen den Willen...

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  • KÜNSTLERLIEBE
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    KÜNSTLERLIEBE
    BERNARD SHAW
    Auszug: "Es war zur Osterzeit an einem schönen Nachmittag. Kensington Gardens erstrahlten im jugendlichen Frühlingsgrün. Die Stufen des Albert Memorial wurden von Provinzlern belagert, die abwechselnd ihren Führer studierten oder zu dem goldenen Herrn unter dem steinernen Baldachin hinaufstarrten und sich dabei bemühten, die Wirklichkeit mit der Beschreibung in Einklang zu brin...

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  • DER GESUNDE MENSCHENVERSTAND IM KRIEG BAND I UND II
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    DER GESUNDE MENSCHENVERSTAND IM KRIEG BAND I UND II
    BERNARD SHAW
    Shaw schrieb 1914 mehrere Briefe und Artikel für die Presse und verglich England und Deutschland mit „ein paar extrem streitsüchtigen Hunden“. Im November veröffentlichte er einen Aufsatz mit dem Titel Gesunder Menschenverstand über den Krieg das deutete darauf hin, dass der englische Militarismus fast genauso für den Konflikt verantwortlich war wie die deutsche Variante. Diese...

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  • VOICE-OVERS
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    VOICE-OVERS
    BERNARD GRAHAM SHAW
    Voice-Overs is an insider's guide to voicing radio and television commercials. Bernard Graham Shaw draws upon his nearly 20 years of voice-work experience to teach valuable studio skills and offers practical advice on how to build a voice-over career. ...

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  • BERNARD SHAW ON POLITICS
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    BERNARD SHAW ON POLITICS
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    A collection of critical writings on politics from the Nobel Prize – winning playwright behind Saint Joan and Man and Superman.   The Critical Shaw: On Politics is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's opinions on a wide range of political movements, ideologies, and events that helped shape the international landscape of the la...

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  • BERNARD SHAW ON THEATER
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    BERNARD SHAW ON THEATER
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion . The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the ...

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  • BERNARD SHAW ON RELIGION
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    BERNARD SHAW ON RELIGION
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    From the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Pygmalion and Saint Joan, a collection of his critical writings on religion. The Critical Shaw: On Religion is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s pronouncements—many of them deliberately inflammatory—on all facets of religion and belief: on Christianity and the Church; on variou...

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  • BERNARD SHAW ON LITERATURE
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    BERNARD SHAW ON LITERATURE
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    A collection of literary criticism from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind such classics as Saint Joan and Pygmalion. The Critical Shaw: On Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist nov...

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  • BERNARD SHAW ON MUSIC
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    BERNARD SHAW ON MUSIC
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    A collection of critical writings on music from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Saint Joan and Man and Superman. The Critical Shaw: On Music is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw’s extensive writings on a wide range of musical topics. Still recognized as one of Great Britain’s most important music critics, Shaw enric...

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  • THE CRIME OF IMPRISONMENT
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    THE CRIME OF IMPRISONMENT
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    The Nobel Prize–winning social critic examines the absurdities and moral indignities of modern incarceration in this classic work. Best known for his theatrical works of biting social satire, George Bernard Shaw was also a committed political activist who, at various times, found himself in conflict with the law. Though he was never arrested, Shaw was deeply concerned with the ...

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  • CLASSIC EUROPEAN PLAYS
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    CLASSIC EUROPEAN PLAYS
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / OSCAR WILDE / HENRIK IBSEN
    These three timeless plays showcase the sparkling wit and provocative intellect of some of modern drama's greatest playwrights. Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw: This complex drama depicts the life of Joan of Arc—from her childhood vision calling her to lead the French army against the English in the Hundred Years War through her eventual capture, trial, and burning at the sta...

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  • PIGMALIÓN
    PIGMALIÓN
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    El profesor Henry Higgins, un experto en fonética, hace una simple apuesta con su amigo, el coronel Pickings: convertir a Eliza Doolittle, una humilde vendedora de flores, a hablar y comportarse como una dama de la alta sociedad en tan sólo seis meses.Haciendo alusión a la mitología de Ovidio, podemos ver que no sólo la personalidad de Eliza empieza a cambiar, sino que también ...
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  • SAINT JOAN
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    SAINT JOAN
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    The great Irish playwright’s impassioned dramatization of the life and trial of Joan of Arc.   Three years after Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920, George Bernard Shaw brought to the stage a more complex and human portrayal of the fifteenth-century French martyr, creating one of the theater’s most memorable and enduring female roles. Already renowned for plays such as Pygmalion...

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  • PYGMALION
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    PYGMALION
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    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 d...

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