Fanny's First Play

Fanny's First Play PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Fanny's First Play

Fanny's First Play PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Pages : 94

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Fanny's First Play

Fanny's First Play PDF Author: Bernar Shaw
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338704464X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play

The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play PDF Author: Dan Laurence
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963697
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled ‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the devil’ in him and die game. Published in 1909, it brought Shaw into conflict with the Lord Chamberlain of England, who banned it on the grounds of alleged blasphemy, and it was twelve years before the play was performed in a London theatre. In an interview Shaw commented, ‘I am sorry that Fanny’s First Play has destroyed the cherished legend that I am an unpopular playwright ... for the first time I have allowed a play of mine to run itself to death ... And the worst of it is it will not die.’ First performed in 1911, the play is a delightful farce in which Shaw debates some of his favourite subjects: middle-class morality, marriage, parents and children and women’s rights. And, deliberately concealing his authorship, Shaw took the opportunity to satirize contemporary drama critics who, he claimed, ‘do not know dramatic chalk from dramatic cheese when it is no longer labelled for them.’

Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play

Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Fanny's First Play and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

Fanny's First Play and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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"In Fanny's first play Fanny O'Dowda, daughter of a Count of the old regime, writes a play which her father promises shall be acted by real actors and reviewed by real critics, the authors' identity of course, being concealed. As an induction, O'Dowda, the courtly aesthete of pre-Victorian days, has an interview with the very commercial theatrical manager of modern times, who cites the methods he employed to get the critics there, a colloquy of delightful wit in its contrasting values. Then come the critics, cheerful satires on the originals of London, in which more fun is poked at their pomposity and ignorance. "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" was written to aid the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre in its appeal for a public endowment" --

Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children

Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a Treatise on Parents and Children PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
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Languages : en
Pages : 384

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The Politics and Plays of Bernard Shaw

The Politics and Plays of Bernard Shaw PDF Author: Judith Evans
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786413232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Do politics and the playhouse go together? For Bernard Shaw they most certainly did. As a playwright with a message he saw the theatre as the ideal medium for conveying his view of life, which was essentially socialistic. The theatre was to Shaw a latter-day temple of the arts within a community. But Shaw was, of course, multi-voiced, not only through the characters he created but also in his own persona as public speaker, essayist, tract writer and author of works on political economy. Much of the thinking that is expressed in his non-dramatic works is contained also in his plays. This work offers a readily accessible means of looking at the nature and the progression of Shaw's thinking. All the plays included in the major canon are reviewed and, except for brief plays and playlets (which are grouped), they are presented in sequential order.

Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914

Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914 PDF Author: Peter Gahan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319484427
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy. The ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty Major Barbara present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like Getting Married, Misalliance, and Pygmalion, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of Beatrice Webb’s famous Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 – a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State – this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.

Current Literature

Current Literature PDF Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Current Opinion

Current Opinion PDF Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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