Download or read book Britain and Britishness in G B Shaw s Plays written by Zsuzsanna Ajtony and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity, in general, and Britishness, in its specific insular version, forms a perpetual theme of G. B. Shawâ (TM)s most well known plays. The main body of the plays analysed in this book reveal a series of cultural and ethnic differences as the playsâ (TM) constitutive elements, comprising oppositions on the basis of which the plays are structured. Arms and the Man, The Devilâ (TM)s Disciple, John Bullâ (TM)s Other Island and Caesar and Cleopatra are works in which ethnicity is directly present, as a structuring element. The extension of the viewpoint to the more inclusive framework of Anglo-Saxon attitudes also allows for a play like Pygmalion to be included in the list of works discussed in the book. Britain and Britishness in G. B. Shawâ (TM)s Plays will be of considerable interest to those concerned with the interdisciplinary field of language and literature. It offers a fresh insight into the Shavian oeuvre by highlighting the aspects of ethnic identity and paradox from a linguistic perspective. The book offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the Shavian plays as it integrates different fields of discourse analysis, cultural pragmatics and micro-sociolinguistics.
Download or read book Plays Extravagant written by Dan Laurence and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-11-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles".
Download or read book Britain and Britishness in G B Shaw s Plays written by Zsuzsanna Ajtony and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity, in general, and Britishness, in its specific insular version, forms a perpetual theme of G. B. Shaw’s most well known plays. The main body of the plays analysed in this book reveal a series of cultural and ethnic differences as the plays’ constitutive elements, comprising oppositions on the basis of which the plays are structured. Arms and the Man, The Devil’s Disciple, John Bull’s Other Island and Caesar and Cleopatra are works in which ethnicity is directly present, as a structuring element. The extension of the viewpoint to the more inclusive framework of Anglo-Saxon attitudes also allows for a play like Pygmalion to be included in the list of works discussed in the book. Britain and Britishness in G. B. Shaw’s Plays will be of considerable interest to those concerned with the interdisciplinary field of language and literature. It offers a fresh insight into the Shavian oeuvre by highlighting the aspects of ethnic identity and paradox from a linguistic perspective. The book offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the Shavian plays as it integrates different fields of discourse analysis, cultural pragmatics and micro-sociolinguistics.
Download or read book Arms and the Man written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Shaw's most popular comedies, deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. Reprinted from an authoritative early edition, complete with Shaw's preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.
Download or read book Selected Short Plays written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1988-01-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE" "THE INCA OF PERUSALEM" "O'FLAHERTY V.C." "AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT" "ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS" "VILLAGE WOOING" "THE SIX OF CALAIS" and "CYMBELINE REFINISHED".
Download or read book Plays Political written by Dan Laurence and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism: although he satirises Fascist dictators in �Geneva�, the satire is disappointingly mild. Neither did Shaw appear to foresee (on the evidence of these plays, at least) the imminent collapse of the British Empire.But it is Shaw the dramatist rather than Shaw the political philosopher who still holds our attention � even in plays as explicitly political as these. He had a sharp intellect and a quirky sense of humour, and his dialogue still glints and sparkles: he couldn�t write a dull line if he tried. No matter how serious the themes he addresses, the crispness of his writing and his lightness of touch still scintillate.Shaw seems, perhaps unfairly, out of fashion nowadays. But even in these lesser-known works, he demonstrates his matchless ability, still undimmed, to provoke and to entertain.
Download or read book Three Plays for Puritans written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three plays by Bernard Shaw.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw on Cinema written by Bernard Shaw and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an interviewer asked Bernard Shaw whether, "speaking personally", he would prefer to see the English and Americans "become drama and variety fans as of old, rather than movie fans", Shaw replied, "Speaking personally, I should prefer to see them become Shaw fans". With his customary wit and quite often with remarkable prescience, Shaw began a dialogue on cinema that ran almost from the infancy of the industry in 1908 until his death in 1950. Bernard F. Dukore presents the first collection of Bernard Shaw's writings and oral statements about cinema. Of the more than one hundred comments Dukore has selected, fifty-nine -- more than half -- are new to today's readers. Twelve are previously unpublished, one is published in full for the first time, and forty-six appear in a collected edition of Shaw's writings for the first time since their publication in newspapers and magazines. Very early in the life of cinema, Shaw perceived that as an invention, movies would be more momentous than the printing press because they appealed to the illiterate as well as the literate, to the manual laborer at the end of an exhausting day as well as to the person with more leisure. He predicted that cinema would form people's minds and shape their conduct. He recognized that cinema's "colossal proportions make mediocrity compulsory" by leveling art and life down to the blandest morality and to the lowest common denominator of potential audiences throughout the world. By 1908, Shaw was familiar with experiments synchronizing movies and sound. When talkies arrived, he discerned that they would precipitate major changes in acting, writing, and economics. He also saw how they would affect live theatre:"The theatre may survive as a place where people are taught to act", he said in 1930, "but apart from that there will be nothing but 'talkies' soon". At that time, few people in the theatrical profession were making such prophecies, at least not in public.
Download or read book Three Plays for Puritans written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Catherine Whom Glory Still Adores written by Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores" is a 1913 one-act play by the prominent Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play tells the story of a prim British visitor to the court of the sexually uninhibited Catherine the Great of Russia. The story tells about Captain Charles Edstaston, the British military attaché, who gets dragged into the drunken, ill-mannered society of Catherine and her lover Prince Patiomkin.
Download or read book Arms and the Man written by Bernard Shaw and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A success on the stage, a popular film, and a musical hit (My Fair Lady), this brilliantly written play, with its irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, is one of the most acclaimed comedies in the English language.
Download or read book Prefaces written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociological. Political. Religious. Autobiographical and professional. Miscellaneous
Download or read book The Complete Plays of George Bernard Shaw 1893 1921 34 Complete and Unabridged Plays Including written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw was a satirical genius, ruthlessly exposing hypocrisy, and creating moral dilemmas for the reader to mull on. These are biting, witty, sometimes rude, highly intelligent plays. This collection of thirty-four of his plays is an Omnibus that will give hours of pleasure to the reader.
Download or read book Great Catherine written by Bernard Shaw and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uptight British man visits the sexually open court of Catherine the Great.
Download or read book In Good King Charles s Golden Days written by George Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a two-act play by George Bernard Shaw. The setting is the English court during the reign of Charles II of England. The play revolves around the views of King Charles II, Isaac Newton, George Fox, and Godfrey Kneller on different subjects. This play focuses on issues concerning nature, science, power, and leadership.
Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Alfred Charles Ward and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise biography of Bernard Shaw.
