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Three Plays for Puritans

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ISBN-10: 0140450289

ISBN-13: 9780140450286

Edition: N/A

Authors: George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence

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'I am as fond of fine music and handsome buildings as Milton was, or Cromwell, or Bunyan; but if I found that they were becoming the instruments of a systematic idolatry of sensuousness, I would hold it good statesmanship to blow up every cathedral in the world to pieces with dynamite' Disgusted and bored by the trend for titillation and sham on the London stage, Shaw wrote these plays both to educate and entertain his audiences. In The Devil's Disciple, a clergyman turned soldier and the Shavian ideal of a Puritan hero-'like all genuinely religious men, a reprobate and an outcast'-willingly risks his life for a stranger. Caesar and Cleopatra, a brilliant satire on contemporary Britain,…    
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Book details

List price: $11.95
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
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…