Pygmalion And Other Plays
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| Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2021-04-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 152904801X |
George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a preface by Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench. Pygmalion was first performed in 1914 and was an instant hit which then inspired the hit musical and award winning film, My Fair Lady. It tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, who tries to elevate a feisty flower girl out of her working-class roots and into high society. In Major Barbara, idealistic Barbara is a major in the Salvation Army, at odds with her millionaire father as they war over the best route to salvation. Androcles and the Lion is a clever retelling of the Bible story about a gentle Christian who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw. All three plays are not only wonderfully amusing, they also showcase Shaw's intense concerns about poverty, class and inequality.
| Author | : Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : Digireads.Com |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781420947113 |
George Bernard Shaw is one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century. The collection "Pygmalion and Three Other Plays" contains his best works, which are known for their rapier wit, ideas of decency, and portrayal of human relationships. Shaw wanted his audiences to realize that people, regardless of race, gender, or class, were all human beings with the same needs as everyone else. "Pygmalion" is a modern retelling of the classic story of the same name. Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, tries to transform a lower-class cockney girl into a lady by teaching her to speak like a proper Englishwoman. What Higgins forgets, though, is that Eliza is a human being who only wants to be treated as such; in Higgins' mind, Eliza is a fun wager, a test of his abilities. When he thinks that he has won and turned Eliza into a fine lady, he becomes lonely and misses her vivacious personality. "Major Barbara," "The Doctor's Dilemma," and "Heartbreak House" all deal with different themes, but each play contains a unique play of words, blending comedy with feeling and heart to create a story which will make a large impression on the audiences' heart.
| Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2004-08-03 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1101157666 |
George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness—coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age—as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable. “My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world.”—G. B. Shaw With an Introduction by Eric Bentley and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd
| Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2020-12-21 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780393977530 |
Presents four plays by George Bernard Shaw, incuding "Mrs. Warren's Profession," "Pygmalion," "Man and Superman," and "Major Barbara," each with an explanatory annotation, and includes information on the author and his work, a chronology, and a selected bibliography.
| Author | : Ruthellen Josselson |
| Publisher | : Jason Aronson, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2007-06-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1461630010 |
We create the characters that people our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just 'are', there are complicated unconscious psychological processes that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct. This book analyzes how four pairs of people, central in each other's lives, 'create' one another. It demonstrates how each of us is like a theater director, casting others into roles on our stage, even as others are casting us into their dramas.
| Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781298106803 |
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| Author | : Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Egypt |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Nikola_ Vasil_evich Gogol_ |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780936839127 |
Eric Bentley brings to the attention of Gogol's still growing American public not only a new version of Inspector, but three other dramatic works: The Marriage, Gamblers and A Madman's Diary, the last-named being Bentley's dramatization of a famous Gogol story. In a critical preface, Bentley finds all four works to be a Gogolian treatment of love - or the lack of love - and by the same token, thoroughly original works of dramatic art. Also includes a piece on Gamblers by the eminent Polish critic Jan Kott.
| Author | : Essaka Joshua |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2021-09-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 135174884X |
This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.
