Arms and the Man, optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect.

Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.

Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. It abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth, Bernard Shaw wrote. Through a long and brilliant career as a playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist, among other roles, his ability to reveal life's truth through humour estabished him as one of the most quoted writers in the English language.

This reissue makes available one of the early works of George Bernard Shaw: a galloping, witty novel with a wealth of pertinent things to say about the creaking class system and men's and women's attempts to find a human and interesting way to live together. The book was written in 1883 and later revised by Shaw for inclusion in the 1932 Standard Edition, from which the present text is taken.

This volume contains forty fascinating essays written by Bernard Shaw. Taken in combination, his essays aim to provide a representative cross-section of English theatre history in the late-nineteenth century. The first chapter explores Shaw's skill as a critic, highlighting his extraordinary body of knowledge. The rest of the essays deal with such playwrights as Shakespeare, Ibsen, Wilde, and Pinero; and such players as Irving, Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Forbes-Robertson, and Bernhardt. This text is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in theatre history, and it is not...

Overture; forest sounds, roaring of lions, Christian hymn faintly. A jungle path. A lion's roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates it. He licks it. He shakes it. He tries to extract it by scraping it along the ground, and hurts himself worse. He roars piteously. He licks it again. Tears drop from his eyes. He limps painfully off the path and lies down under the trees, exhausted with pain. Heaving a long sigh, like wind...

This selection of George Bernard Shaw's musical writing includes sections on Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Verdi, Berlioz and pieces on opera, musical analysis, oratorios and Gilbert and Sullivan. An autobiographical preface is also included, one of Shaw's most self-revealing works.

This volume contains a small collection of plays written by Bernard Shaw. These thought-provoking plays aim to challenge the audience s moral complacency apropos serious social issues and injustices. Unusual and intriguing, they will greatly appeal to fans of Shaw s work. The plays contained herein include: Widowers Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren s Profession . George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are...

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, and more.