Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-19502021
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Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw remains one of the world's most important and popular writers. His plays are regularly performed around the world, from the boards of Broadway and the West End to regional, community, and college stages. The three plays selected here are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre: 'Man and Superman': a four-act comedy for serious people, staged in part at Royal court in 1905, it is one of the early works of Modernism to take an ancient myth and restage it in contemporary mode (and its influence extends across world literature, palpable in writings from Mann to Joyce). 'John Bull's Other Island' takes up that idea: to the visionary, hell may be the ultimate modern dream of efficiency and rational administration, as manifested in a colonial Ireland run by liberal exploiters.
Main title:
Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara / George Bernard Shaw.
Author:
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780198828853 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
822.912
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
281625