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Book Heartbreak House and Misalliance

Download or read book Heartbreak House and Misalliance written by Bernard Shaw and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1995 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heartbreak House, a visit to an eccentric gentleman's home reveals surprises in gender and identity, while in Misalliance, an underwear tycoon and his daughter find adventure after a plane crash. Reissue.

Book Heartbreak House

Download or read book Heartbreak House written by Anthony Matthews Gibbs and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and penetrating study of Heartbreak House, A. M. Gibbs shows how George Bernard Shaw's complex, Janus-faced play connects unscrupulous behavior in England's social, political, and economic spheres and the life of "cultured, leisured Europe" to the catastrophe of World War I. Revealing the play to be more intricately autobiographical than has been previously recognized, Gibbs analyzes the ways in which refracted images of Shaw's own experience in the realms of love and sex appear in the play's amatory themes.

Book The Marriage of Contraries

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. L. Wisenthal
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN : 9780674550858
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book The Marriage of Contraries written by J. L. Wisenthal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.

Book Heartbreak House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Heartbreak House written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pygmalion  Heartbreak House  and Saint Joan

Download or read book Pygmalion Heartbreak House and Saint Joan written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre.Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time of its premiere in Vienna 1913 and it has remained popular to this day. Shaw was awarded an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of the film adaptation. It was, of course, later made into the much-loved musical My Fair Lady.Heartbreak House (1917), which was finally performed in 1920 and published in 1921, bares the hallmarks of European modernism and a formal break from Shaw's previous work. A meditation on the war and the resultant decline in European aristocratic culture, it was perhaps staged too soon after theconflict; indeed, it did not have the success of his earlier works, which was likely due to his experimental aesthetics combined with a war-weary audience that sought lighter fare. However, while this contemporary reception was muted, it is now recognised as a modernist masterpiece.Saint Joan (1923) marked Shaw's resurrection and apotheosis. The first major work written of Joan of Arc after her canonization (1920), the play interrogates the origins of European nationalism in the post-war era. Like Pygmalion, it was an immediate world-wide hit and secured Shaw the Nobel Prizefor Literature in 1925. Drawing upon the transcripts of Joan's trial, Shaw blended his trademark wit to produce a hybrid genre of comedy and history play. Despite the historical setting, Saint Joan is highly accessible and continues to delight audiences.

Book A Sustainable Theatre

    Book Details:
  • Author : B. Witham
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-06-13
  • ISBN : 1137121858
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book A Sustainable Theatre written by B. Witham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begun as an audacious experiment, for thirty years the Hedgerow Theatre prospered as America's most successful repertory company. While known for its famous alumnae (Ann Harding and Richard Basehart), Hedgerow's legacy is a living library of over 200 productions created by Jasper Deeter's idealistic and determined pursuit of 'truth and beauty.'

Book Mirrors of Our Playing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas R. Whitaker
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780472110254
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Mirrors of Our Playing written by Thomas R. Whitaker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major paradigms that have influenced modern English-speaking theater

Book Bernard Shaw s Marriages and Misalliances

Download or read book Bernard Shaw s Marriages and Misalliances written by Robert A. Gaines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Shaw’s own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in his works, showing how his personal relationships in and out of matrimonial bonds change the ways his characters enter and exit marriages and misalliances. While providing a wealth of new analysis, this collection of essays also leaves lingering questions for the reader to spark continuing dialogue in both individual and academic settings.

Book The English Review

Download or read book The English Review written by Ford Madox Ford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Statesman

Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Works of Harold Clurman

Download or read book The Collected Works of Harold Clurman written by Harold Clurman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social, and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, New York Magazine , and more. The Collected Works of Harold Clurman captures over six hundred of Clurman's encounters with the most significant events in American theatre as well as his regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art and film. This chronological epic offers the most comprehensive view of American theatre seen through the eyes of our most extraordinary critic. 1102 pages, hardcover.

Book Misalliance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Misalliance written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw

Download or read book The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw written by John Anthony Bertolini and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolini provides close, subtle readings of six of Shaws major plays: Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctors Dilemma, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan. He also devotes a full chapter to the one-act plays.

Book British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century written by D. Rabey and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Actor s Life in 12 Productions

Download or read book An Actor s Life in 12 Productions written by Oliver Ford Davies and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a study of British theatre through a varied acting career spanning over fifty years, Oliver Ford Davies explores the many changes within the performing arts scene through his experiences on various stages, in a variety of productions, across the country.

Book Composing Ourselves

Download or read book Composing Ourselves written by Dorothy Chansky and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When movies replaced theater in the early twentieth century, live drama was wide open to reform. A rebellion against commercialism, called the Little Theatre movement, promoted the notion that theatre is a valuable form of self-expression. Composing Ourselves argues that the movement was a national phenomenon that resulted in lasting ideas for serious theatre that are now ordinary parts of the American cultural landscape.

Book The Encyclop  dia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 2342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: