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Three Plays for Puritans

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ISBN-10: 0140437924

ISBN-13: 9780140437928

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bernard Shaw, Michael Billington, Dan H. Laurence

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Bored and disgusted by the trend for what he saw as titillation and sham on the London stage, Shaw wrote these plays to educate as well as entertain. In each play he turns received wisdom upside down and celebrates the triumph of individual conscience.
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.80" long x 0.67" 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…    

Introduction
Preface
The Devil's Disciple: A Melodrama
Caesar and Cleopatra: A History
Captain Brassbound's Conversion: An Adventure
Principal Works of Bernard Shaw