George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw based on the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor…
Don Juan In Hell
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George Bernard Shaw
Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In…
Arms and the Man
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George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to t…
The Perfect Wagnerite
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George Bernard Shaw
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagne…
Mrs. Warren's Profession
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George Bernard Shaw
The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren, a rich woman, described by the author as "on the whole, a genial and fa…
The Doctor's Dilemma
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George Bernard Shaw
The Doctor's Dilemma is about Dr. Colenso Ridgeon, who has recently been knighted because of a miraculous new treatment he developed for tub…
Heartbreak House
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George Bernard Shaw
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. U…
Major Barbara
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a mill…
Candida
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George Bernard Shaw
Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are …
Caesar and Cleopatra
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George Bernard Shaw
Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's …
Misalliance
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George Bernard Shaw
Misalliance, a 1910 play by George Bernard Shaw, is an ironic examination of the romantic entanglements of a varied group of people gathered…
Arms and The Man (Version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the…
Widowers' Houses
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George Bernard Shaw
This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, n…
Love Among the Artists
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George Bernard Shaw
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chi…
One-Act Play Collection 004
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This collection of twelve one-act dramas features plays by James Allen, John Kendrick Bangs, Gordon Bottomley, Charles Dickens, Lord Dunsany…
One-Act Play Collection 002
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This collection of eight one-act dramas features plays by Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Susan Glaspell, William Dean…
Mrs. Warren's Profession (Version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two p…
The Admirable Bashville
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George Bernard Shaw
The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright. As that law stands at present, the first person who patches up a stage…
Candida (version 2)
Leído por Phil Chenevert
George Bernard Shaw
This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, po…
The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)
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George Bernard Shaw
This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…
George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
Pygmalion First broadcast: Sat 12th Aug 2006, 13:00 on BBC 7 Imelda Staunton and Simon Cadell star in George Bernar…
Saint Joan: Preface
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George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her…
The Devil's Disciple
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George Bernard Shaw
Set during the American Revolution. Richard Dudgeon, put off by the dour religious ferocity of his mother and many of his neighbors, declare…
Fabian Essays in Socialism
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George Bernard Shaw
The Fabian Society is a British institution, which, though radical, advocated social reform through legislative rather than revolutionary me…
You Never Can Tell
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George Bernard Shaw
In this witty comedy of errors, the Clandon siblings, Gloria and the twins, Dolly and Philip attempt to uncover the identity of their long l…
Overruled
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George Bernard Shaw
This is a short one act comedy by Shaw which involves two couples on a cruise who both need help figuring out their relationships. (Summary …
Back to Methuselah
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George Bernard Shaw
In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…
First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. III
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This collection of non-fiction and fiction pieces is the third volume commemorating the First World War. The majority of the items, all chos…
George Bernard Shaw Caesar And Cleopatra
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The Monday Play: Caesar and Cleopatra Mon 21st Apr 1975, 19:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM With Alan Badel as Caesar and Sa…
One-Act Play Collection 018
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Here, in our 18th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a 1663 Moliere to a 1922 Percival Wilde, from "a…
Bernard Shaw Some Of His Broadcasts LP
Some Of His Broadcasts by George Bernard Shaw ABC Westminster / Westminster (WBBC-8001) Publication date 1970 1. Band 1 - Whither …
Fanny's First Play
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George Bernard Shaw
Fanny who is the daughter of a Count has written a play. Having hired professional actors and invited some major critics. She is keeping her…
One-Act Play Collection 019
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Here, in our 19th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. (Several of the plays took longer than one section and had to be spli…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104
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"Grandmother and Stockhausen are of the opinion that Wagner will one day totally disappear. His music, they argue, is too unhealthy.&qu…