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Plays by George Bernard Shaw

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ISBN-10: 0451529448

ISBN-13: 9780451529442

Edition: 2004

Authors: George Bernard Shaw, Eric Bentley, Norman Lloyd, George Bernard

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In Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw 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 humorous.
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Book details

List price: $8.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 4.20" wide x 6.81" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines. Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and later began to have some of his early plays produced. Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the…