Bernard Shaw

Dramatizes the trial, career, and execution of Joan of Arc.

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

Saint Joan

Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Hailed as “a Tolstoy with jokes" by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic film--which won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplay--and the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady . Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Like most of Shaw's work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships. This volume also includes Major Barbara, which attacks both capitalism and charitable organizations, The Doctor's Dilemma, a keen-eyed examination of medical morals and malpractice, and Heartbreak House, which exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the bloodshed of World War I. John A. Bertolini is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw and articles on Hitchcock, and British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Shaw's Man and Superman and Three Other Plays.

Pygmalion and Three Other Plays

Alan Jay Lerner

Accompanied by the adaptation and lyrics of the Broadway play "My Fair Lady," this play follows Professor Henry Higgins as he transforms a rough-hewn girl into a sophisticated lady of society.

A Romance in Five Acts

Pygmalion

Dan H. Laurence

Written at the height of the first World War in Europe, an impassioned satire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century bourgeoisie offers a scathing portrait of a household of independent eccentrics.

Heartbreak House

Peter Gahan

'If you are not ready to lay the truth at her feet as I am-then you will know to the end of your days that she really belongs to me and not to you.' The Reverend Morell, a socialist preacher, brings a penniless young poet, Eugene Marchbanks, into his home, which is dominated by his fascinating wife, Candida. With its single stage setting and small cast of six characters, Shaw's play is deceptively simple. Centered on a romantic triangle and parodying courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen, Candida also abounds with classical allusions, the fervor of a religious revival, and poetic inspiration and aspirations. This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. This volume includes Shaw's preface of 1898. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Introduction by PETER LITERATURE

A Pleasant Play

Candida

A Metabiological Pentateuch (Shaw Library)

Back to Methuselah

Plays Unpleasant (Shaw Library)

So controversial was Black Girl when it first appeared in 1932 that it provoked public outcry with Shaw decried as a blasphemer. Today, it remains a surprisingly irreverent depiction of the universal search for God. Dissatisfied with the teachings of respectable white missionaries, an African girl embarks upon her own quest for God and Truth. Journeying through the forest, she encounters various religious figures, each one seeking to convert her to their own brand of faith. This brilliantly sardonic allegory showcases some of Shaw's most unorthodox thoughts on religion and race. George Bernard Shaw (1856?1950) is best known for his dramatic works, of which Pygmalion is the most famous.

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

Dört Oyun

The renowned dramatist George Bernard Shaw's play 'The Doctor's Dilemma' is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation around the Europe in the early twentieth century. This play was first staged in the year 1906.

The Doctor's Dilemma

Pigmalião

Described by his contemporaries as a "master of impeccable prose," "the great exploder of complacency," and a "showman of ideas," George Bernard Shaw (1856 1950) is today regarded as the most important British comic dramatist since Cosgreve. "Heartbreak House," however, is one of Shaw's more somber plays. An allegory that examines apathy, confusion, and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, the drama features larger-than-life characters who represent evils of the modern world. Initially pessimistic, the play nevertheless ends on an optimistic note. Written in 1913 and first produced in 1923, "Heartbreak House," with its portrayal of a bored and frustrated upper-middle class, is a prime example of Shaw's unconventional and provocative literary style. "

George Bernard Shaw, nascido na Irlanda em 1856, foi um dramaturgo, romancista, contista, ensaísta e jornalista irlandês. Autor de comédias satíricas de espírito irreverente e inconformista, Bernard Shaw.foi agraciado com um Prêmio Nobel (1925) e um Oscar (1938).por suas contribuições para a literatura e por seu trabalho no filme Pygmalion. A peça Pigmalião conta a história de uma mulher humilde transformada em mulher da alta sociedade. Na narrativa Eliza Doolittle é uma mendiga que vende flores pelas ruas escuras de Londres. Em uma dessas noites, Eliza conhece um culto professor de fonética chamado Henry Higgins, que ao ouvir a horrível pronúncia de Eliza, aposta com o amigo Hugh Pickering que é capaz de transformar uma simples vendedora de flores numa dama da alta sociedade num espaço de seis meses. A obra foi adaptada para o cinema com o nome My Fair Lady - Minha Bela Dama. No Brasil, a peça foi adaptada duas vezes para a TV com as novelas Pigmalião 70 e Totalmente Demais.

Prêmio Nobel

PIGMALIÃO - Bernard Shaw

1898. Most of Shaw's early plays were either banned by the censor or refused production. With Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant he sought a reading audience. He also began the practice of writing the challenging, mocking, eloquent prefaces to his plays, which were sometimes longer than the play itself. This volume contains the Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer; and Mrs. Warren's Profession.

Plays by George Bernard Shaw

John Bull's Other Island

"With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fianče comes from her father's income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven - who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs Warren's Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother's immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing."--From publisher.

Plays Unpleasant

"The Devil's Disciple" by Bernard Shaw. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Devil's Disciple

Anton Chekhov

Euripides

Sophocles

Henrik Ibsen

William Shakespeare

Aeschylus

This collection contains the following works: Euripides Medea Sophocles Antigone Aeschylus Agamemnon Aeschylus Eumenides Aeschylus The Choephori William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice William Shakespeare Romeo And Juliet William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare King Lear William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Coriolanus William Shakespeare The Tragedie of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Cymbeline, King of Britain William Shakespeare The Life of Tymon of Athens William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Masterpieces of Tragedies and Comedies: Medea by Euripides; Antigone by Sophocles; The Oresteia by Aeschylus; Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth by Shakespeare; A Doll's House by Ibsen; Uncle Vanya by Chekhov; Pygmalion by Shaw and others

Great critic and dramatist's commentary on Ibsen's aims and methods, including evaluations of plays: Brand, Peer Gynt, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, others.

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