Arms And The Man The Devils Disciple And Caesar And Cleopatra

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198800711
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms and the Man, The Devil's Disciple, and Caesar and Cleopatra written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three plays in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most popular and frequently performed works. They demonstrate the development of Shavian comedy and contain early formulations of his idea of the Superman, an extraordinary individual who catalyzes the evolution of mankind.Arms and the Man (1894) was Shaw's first commercial success and the first public confirmation that he could make playwriting his profession. It is the first of what Shaw called his "pleasant plays", comedies that critique idealism in general rather than specific social problems (as his earlier playsdid). Specifically, Shaw undermines the romance of wartime courage, reckless heroism, and nationalist pride among British spectators while using the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1886 as an exotic veneer.Shaw wrote The Devil's Disciple (1897) for William Terriss, an actor known for his swashbuckling roles who had requested a play that would "contain every 'surefire" melodramatic situation' - mistaken identities, terrifying adventures and last-second escapes, and frequent emotional outpourings..Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) is Shaw's revision of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra as well as a fusion of the pragmatism and unconventionality of the heroes of Arms and the Man and The Devil's Disciple into a portrait of jocular, morally serious leadership.

Author : Zsuzsanna Ajtony
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443844276
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Bennison Gray
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110890976
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phenomenon of Literature written by Bennison Gray and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Phenomenon of Literature".

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Warren's profession. Arms and the man. Candida. The devil's disciple. Caesar and Cleopatra. Man and superman. Fanny's first play. The dark lady of the sonnets written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780742682207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra and Captain Brassbound's Conversion written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : SENGUPTA, GAUTAM
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 8120352114
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MYRIAD MINDED SHAW : PERSPECTIVES ON SHAVIAN DRAMA written by SENGUPTA, GAUTAM and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir George Bernard Shaw’s contribution to the Western theatre is unparallel, and hence, is imitated, remembered and read by literature lovers even today. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays, and nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works, Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, healthcare, and class privilege as primary themes of his plays. This book is an anthology of some of Shaw’s important plays, which are much talked about, and also prescribed in the English Literature syllabuses of all premier Indian and International Universities. As the title suggests, the book focuses on three important social components of that period—Politics, War and History. The plays discussed and critically analyzed are both in terms of Shaw’s interpretation of his times, and the author’s research on the subject. This book is suited for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of English. Besides, the students doing research work in Shaw’s plays will be benefitted reading this book.

Author : T. F. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136213716
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw written by T. F. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Author : Robert Bechtold Heilman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295801872
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways of the World-cl written by Robert Bechtold Heilman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Wixson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198850093
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw: a Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Wixson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Wixson introduces George Bernard Shaw, the greatest playwright in English after Shakespeare. Taking a chronological approach through his works, he provides an overview of Shaw's sensibility as a writer, and studies the creative evolution of core themes and styles throughout his long career.

Author : Dr. Ramen Goswami
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bulk of Short Questions and Answers Series-4 written by Dr. Ramen Goswami and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps the undergraduate students of English hons in India to modify their insight and increase their intellectuality; only then my labour will prove fruitful.