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Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2021-09-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 3985948615 |
Major Barbara Bernard Shaw - Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated sermons on moral and economic issues, a potentially dry theatrical experience enlivened by Shaw's genius for creating vital characters and scintillating dialogue. Major Barbara offers a sparkling example of its author's unique gift for presenting social theories in an engaging format.The eponymous heroine, an officer in the Salvation Army, is the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy armaments manufacturer. When the Army accepts donations from Undershaft and a whiskey distiller, whose money Barbara regards as tainted, she resigns in disgust, but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.
Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1921 |
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Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2021-05-30 |
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Lady Britomart Undershaft, the daughter of a British earl, and her son Stephen discuss a source of income for her grown daughters Sarah, who is engaged to Charles Lomax, and Barbara, who is engaged to Adolphus Cusins. Lady Britomart leads Stephen to accept her decision that they must ask her estranged husband, Andrew Undershaft, for financial help. Mr. Undershaft is a successful and wealthy businessman who has made millions of pounds from his munitions factory, which manufactures the world-famous Undershaft guns, cannons, torpedoes, submarines and aerial battleships.When their children were still small, the Undershafts separated; now grown, the children have not seen their father since, and Lady Britomart has raised them by herself. During their reunion, Undershaft learns that Barbara is a major in The Salvation Army who works at their shelter in West Ham, east London. Barbara and Mr. Undershaft agree that he will visit Barbara's Army shelter, if she will then visit his munitions factory.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Chelsea House Publications |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics" by Bernard Shaw. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Irish drama |
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Author | : Jean Reynolds |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030960714 |
This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls “the problem of language.” Nearly every character in Major Barbara produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins is Eliza’s acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershaft’s Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity? Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday lives—sometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them.