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Saint Joan
One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and …
Plays Unpleasant
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 …
Last Plays
In Good King Charles's Golden Days: a true history that never happened. A discussion play; the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr …
Ethics in Child Health
Have you ever-Wondered how to deal with a family that repeatedly fails to keep clinic appointments?-Disagreed with colleagues over a proposed course of treatment for a …
Plays Political
While some of Shaw s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are …
Man and Superman
Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse …
Major Barbara
Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by …
Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play
A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America s Wild West and aptly subtitled A Sermon in Crude …
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, …
Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing
Started by small group of well known scientists with the aim of sharing knowledge, experiences, and results on all aspects of cluster computing, the initiative of a workshop on …
Heartbreak House
When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's …
Plays Extravagant
This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "e;The Millionairess"e;, "e;Too True to be Good"e; and "e;The Simpleton of the Unexpected …