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Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable RenovatedISBN 0140450130 (0-14-045013-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovated'Book summary:"Androcles and the Lion" is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. "Androcles and the Lion" is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values. [via]
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Cashel Byron's Professionby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140048863 (0-14-004886-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Four Modern Playsby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0030119154 (0-03-011915-4)
Softcover, Harcourt School
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Getting Married and Press Cuttingsby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140450165 (0-14-045016-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Heartbreak Houseby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140437878 (0-14-043787-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Intelligent Women's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascismby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140200010 (0-14-020001-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Major Barbaraby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140437908 (0-14-043790-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Major Barbara'Book summary:In this sparkling comedy, originally staged in 1905, Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, however, is a devout major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day.[via]More editions of Major Barbara:
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophyby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140437886 (0-14-043788-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy'Book summary:How tantalizing to hear Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler's List) but not be able to see him! And hear him one does in his role as Jack Tanner, the antihero of Shaw's 1905 classic drama Man and Superman. Fiennes is a veritable mouthpiece--and a frequently sarcastic one at that--for the burning issues on Shaw's philosophical and social laundry list: the state of the English working class, the arms race, women's rights, unwed mothers, the evils of industry and capitalism, and English morality in general. The seriousness of the discussions is tempered by delightful Shavian wit ("There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."), which prevents the dialogue from collapsing under its own weight, although it does teeter at times. The four-act play, directed by the esteemed Peter Hall for BBC Radio, begins in the English countryside and ends in the mountains of Spain after a curious detour to Hell, where, in act 3, the famous dream sequence unfolds and the main characters take on such roles as Don Juan and the Devil to further hash out the meaning of existence, the definition of life force, and the power of the female sex. This is a spirited production of Shaw's imperfect but intellectually challenging work. (Running time: 225 min; four cassettes) [via]
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Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tellby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence, W.J. Mc CormackISBN 0140437940 (0-14-043794-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/the Philanderer/Mrs Warren's Professionby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence, W.J. Mc CormackISBN 0140437932 (0-14-043793-2)
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The Portable Bernard Shawby George Bernard Shaw , Stanley WeintraubISBN 0140150900 (0-14-015090-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0030573149 (0-03-057314-9)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pygmalion'Book summary:When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" more than a half century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair Lady," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth century has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificially of class distinctions and the callousness of indifference to human worth. [via]
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Saint Joanby George Bernard ShawISBN 0140437916 (0-14-043791-6)
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Selected Short Plays : Shawby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140450246 (0-14-045024-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Shaw Library Shewing up of Blanco Posnetby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140450254 (0-14-045025-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaw Library Shewing up of Blanco Posnet'Book summary:'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 Melodrama", this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to 'keep the devil' in him and die game. Published in 1909, it brought Shaw into conflict with the Lord Chamberlain of England, who banned it on the grounds of alleged blasphemy, and it was twelve years before the play was performed in a London theatre. In an interview Shaw commented, 'I am sorry that Fanny's First Play has destroyed the cherished legend that I am an unpopular playwright ...for the first time I have allowed a play of mine to run itself to death ...And the worst of it is it will not die.'First performed in 1911, the play is a delightful farce in which Shaw debates some of his favourite subjects: middle-class morality, marriage, parents and children and women's rights. And, deliberately concealing his authorship, Shaw took the opportunity to satirize contemporary drama critics who, he claimed, 'do not know dramatic chalk from dramatic cheese when it is no longer labelled for them.' [via]
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An Unsocial Socialistby George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. LaurenceISBN 0140162178 (0-14-016217-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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