George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw PDF Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781479194476
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Shaw saw himself and his dramatic translation of the Nietzschian Superman as the Modern and secularized realization of the ancient concept of poet-creator. He believed (as did Blake, Emerson, and Nietzsche) that the poet-creator had a genius which was the spiritual source of Vision and a Will-to-Power and that these two human faculties, in a Marxist-utopian sense, held the hope of humanity. The poet's quest into the unknown, as Shaw believed, begins with a revolutionary renunciation of inherited duty and worn illusions in order to find the freedom to create a new order of being. The poet's imagination will be the guide. The poet as prophet must herald the new state of being into words, and sometimes deeds: "To desire, to imagine, to will, to create ... in one word, to conceive." The poet's gift is a state of vision and the wherewithal and will to bring that Vision into being before the greater consciousness of humanity."--Cover.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw PDF Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781479194476
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Shaw saw himself and his dramatic translation of the Nietzschian Superman as the Modern and secularized realization of the ancient concept of poet-creator. He believed (as did Blake, Emerson, and Nietzsche) that the poet-creator had a genius which was the spiritual source of Vision and a Will-to-Power and that these two human faculties, in a Marxist-utopian sense, held the hope of humanity. The poet's quest into the unknown, as Shaw believed, begins with a revolutionary renunciation of inherited duty and worn illusions in order to find the freedom to create a new order of being. The poet's imagination will be the guide. The poet as prophet must herald the new state of being into words, and sometimes deeds: "To desire, to imagine, to will, to create ... in one word, to conceive." The poet's gift is a state of vision and the wherewithal and will to bring that Vision into being before the greater consciousness of humanity."--Cover.

Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw

Selected Plays of George Bernard Shaw PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages :

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Selected Plays

Selected Plays PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Dodd Mead
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Selected Short Plays

Selected Short Plays PDF Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141963689
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 435

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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".

Plays by George Bernard Shaw

Plays by George Bernard Shaw PDF Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101157666
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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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

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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A collection of six short plays written by George Bernard Shaw.

The Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw (1893-1921), 34 Complete and Unabridged Plays Including

The Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw (1893-1921), 34 Complete and Unabridged Plays Including PDF Author: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781789433012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1076

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George Bernard Shaw was a satirical genius, ruthlessly exposing hypocrisy, and creating moral dilemmas for the reader to mull on. These are biting, witty, sometimes rude, highly intelligent plays. This collection of thirty-four of his plays is an Omnibus that will give hours of pleasure to the reader.

George Bernard Shaw's Plays

George Bernard Shaw's Plays PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393977530
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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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.

Selected One-act Plays

Selected One-act Plays PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : One-act plays
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Shaw on Shakespeare

Shaw on Shakespeare PDF Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557835611
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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(Applause Books). "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his." - From SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE Celebrated playwright, critic and essayist George Bernard Shaw was more like the Elizabethan master that he would ever admit. Both men were intristic dramatists who shared a rich and abiding respect for the stage. Shakespeare was the produce of a tempestuous and enlightening era under the reign of his patron, Queen Elizabeth I; while G.B.S. reflected the racy and risque spirt of the late 19th century as the champion of modern drama by playwrights like Ibsen, and, later, himself. Culled from Shaw's reviews, prefaces, letters to actors and critics, and other writings, SHAW ON SHAKESPEARE offers a fascinating and unforgettable portrait of the 16th century playwright by his most outspoken critic. This is a witty and provocative classic that combines Shaw's prodigious critical acumen with a superlative prose style second to none (except, perhaps, Shakespeare!).