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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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  • 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 vari...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • HELDEN (GERMAN)
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    HELDEN (GERMAN)
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    "Helden" von George Bernard Shaw, eine Anthologie, die durch die deutsche bersetzung von "Arms and the Man" beleuchtet wird, bietet eine fesselnde Auseinandersetzung mit Themen des Krieges und der Liebe. Die Geschichte spielt im Jahr 1885 in einem kleinen bulgarischen Dorf und folgt der jungen Raina Petkoff, deren romantische Vorstellungen von Heldentum durch die Ankunft des pr...

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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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  • AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE
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    AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Augustus Does His Bit, A True to Life Farce (1916) is a comic one-act play by George Bernard Shaw about a dim-witted aristocrat who is outwitted by a female spy during World War I. ...

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  • HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
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    HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    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 w...

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  • GETTING MARRIED
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    GETTING MARRIED
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ...

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  • MISALLIANCE
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    MISALLIANCE
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England. It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in 1908 in his play, Getting Married. It was also a continuation of some of his other ide...

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  • THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
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    THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short comedy by George Bernard Shaw in which William Shakespeare, intending to meet the "Dark Lady", accidentally encounters Queen Elizabeth I and attempts to persuade her to create a national theatre. The play was written as part of a campaign to create a "Shakespeare National Theatre" by 1916. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ...

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  • CANDIDA
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    CANDIDA
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from h...

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  • MAN AND SUPERMAN
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    MAN AND SUPERMAN
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but it omitted the third act. A part of the act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on ...

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  • THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
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    THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ...

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  • HEARTBREAK HOUSE
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    HEARTBREAK HOUSE
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their pr...

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  • PYGMALION
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    PYGMALION
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gil...

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  • THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
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    THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans together with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and...

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  • YOU NEVER CAN TELL
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    YOU NEVER CAN TELL
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's plays entitled Plays Pleasant. In June 2011, the play was revived at the Coliseum Theatre in Aberystwyth, Wales, where it had been performed exactly one century earlier. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) ...

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  • CEASAR AND CLEOPATRA
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    CEASAR AND CLEOPATRA
    GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
    Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalised account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed in a single staged reading at Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 ...

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