Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : London |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Irish drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : London |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Irish drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2021-06-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781609441456 |
Shaw characterizes Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction as a "Brief tragedy," which, of course, the reader or spectator immediately discovers that Shaw is having us on. One might more rightly describe this play about vanity, jealousy, and murder as ridiculous or even-dare we say it-an antecedent to the Theatre of the Absurd. The play is a world unto itself-tomfoolery from beginning to end. Consequently, the frivolity is its virtue. Tragedy turned on its head. May you laugh yourself silly.
Author | : Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gale K. Larson |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780271023311 |
Shaw, now in its twenty-third year, publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, the bibliography of Shaw studies.
Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0198804989 |
'These highbrows must remember that there is a demand for little things as well as for big things'George Bernard Shaw was one of the leading playwrights and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He helped propel drama towards the unexpected, into a realm where it might shock audiences into new viewpoints and into fresh understandings of society. Throughout his longwriting career Shaw wrote short plays, ranging in length from 1000-word puppet play, Shakes Versus Shav, to the 12,000-word suffragette comedy, Press Cuttings. These plays can be taken to illuminate Shaw's life and legacy, from ideas about war and patriotism in O'Flaherty, V.C. to censorship in TheShewing up of Blanco Posset.Surveying Shaw's entire career of writing short dramas, focusing especially on those years when his work in the form was particularly prolific (around 1909 and during the First World War), this collection places Shaw's short plays broadly into four key areas: farces, historical sketches, war dramas,and Shakespearean shorts. For each of these areas, the volume explores Shaw's aesthetic and thematic concerns, the precise historical and generic contexts in which the works were written, the major criticism and scholarship that has subsequently emerged, and the most notable stage and screenproductions. This collection reveals how a playwright often criticized for being too wordy was actually a master of the short form.
Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788382265897 |
Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 1988-01-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141963689 |
This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE" "THE INCA OF PERUSALEM" "O'FLAHERTY V.C." "AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT" "ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS" "VILLAGE WOOING" "THE SIX OF CALAIS" and "CYMBELINE REFINISHED".
Author | : John Anthony Nicholls |
Publisher | : Paragon Publishing |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1782223118 |
"It was the best of times, it was the best of times," to paraphrase Dickens' famous line. That was the experience of the few youthful hopefuls who founded an amazing tradition all those years ago. It was the experience too of the many who happened upon or sought out Theatre West Four and joined up to become faithful supporters and contributors. It became - for most of them - the centre of their social activity and natural supplier of entertainment; the highlight of each week. Too strong a statement? Read Tony Nicholl's wonderful discourse on the life and times of TW4 and discover more.