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Author : Nigel Alexander
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Release Date : 1968
ISBN 10 : UCAL:B2823853
Pages : 85 pages
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Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105114412377
Pages : 73 pages
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Download Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of one of Shaw’s most delightful comedies—part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Raina, a young woman with romantic notions of war and an idealized view of her soldier fiancé, is surprised one night by a Swiss mercenary soldier seeking refuge in her bedchamber. The pragmatic Captain Bluntschli proceeds to puncture all of Raina’s illusions about love, heroism, and class. In a second duel of sex, Louka, Raina’s maid, uses her wiles in her attempt to gain power. Optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, Arms and the Man has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect. This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaw’s preface of 1898.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Release Date : 2016-04-20
ISBN 10 : 9781681959894
Pages : 93 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (959 downloads)
Download Pygmalion PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion, created the character of Eliza Doolittle and has awed audiences on stage, in film as, My Fair Lady, and in this dramatic text.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 1593080786
Pages : 667 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (593 downloads)
Download Pygmalion and Three Other Plays PDF Format Full Free by Bernard Shaw and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Hailed as “a Tolstoy with jokes" by one critic, George Bernard Shaw was the most significant British playwright since the seventeenth century. Pygmalion persists as his best-loved play, one made into both a classic film--which won Shaw an Academy Award for best screenplay--and the perennially popular musical My Fair Lady . Pygmalion follows the adventures of phonetics professor Henry Higgins as he attempts to transform cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady. The scene in which Eliza appears in high society with the correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is considered one of the funniest in English drama. Like most of Shaw's work, Pygmalion wins over audiences with wit, a taut morality, and an innate understanding of human relationships. This volume also includes Major Barbara, which attacks both capitalism and charitable organizations, The Doctor's Dilemma, a keen-eyed examination of medical morals and malpractice, and Heartbreak House, which exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of the generation responsible for the bloodshed of World War I. John A. Bertolini is Ellis Professor of the Liberal Arts at Middlebury College, where he teaches dramatic literature, Shakespeare, and film. He has written The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw and articles on Hitchcock, and British and American dramatists. Bertolini also wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Shaw's Man and Superman and Three Other Plays.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1994-10-20
ISBN 10 : 9780486282220
Pages : 82 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (282 downloads)
Download Pygmalion PDF Format Full Free by Bernard Shaw and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system. In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork. The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Release Date : 2004-09
ISBN 10 : 1595402381
Pages : 116 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (595 downloads)
Download Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - To the irreverent - and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification? - there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. He so obviously disregards all the canons and unities and other things which every well-bred dramatist is bound to respect that his work is really unworthy of serious criticism (orthodox). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in "The Man of Destiny," Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War. But both men were successes each in his way - the latter won victories and the former gained audiences, in the very teeth of the accepted theories of war and the theatre. Shaw does not know that it is unpardonable sin to have his characters make long speeches at one another, apparently thinking that this embargo applies only to long speeches which consist mainly of bombast and rhetoric. There never was an author who showed less predilection for a specific medium by which to accomplish his results. He recognized, early in his days, many things awry in the world and he assumed the task of mundane reformation with a confident spirit. It seems such a small job at twenty to set the times aright. He began as an Essayist, but who reads essays now-a-days? - he then turned novelist with no better success, for no one would read such preposterous stuff as he chose to emit. He only succeeded in proving that absolutely rational men and women - although he has created few of the latter - can be most extremely disagreeable to our conventional way of thinking.
Author : Dan H. Laurence
Publisher :
Release Date : 1983
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015048903713
Pages : pages
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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : 0486264769
Pages : 56 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (486 downloads)
Download Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by Bernard Shaw and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic comedy combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating misconceptions about love and warfare.
Author : Marilynn O Harper
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1981-12-18
ISBN 10 : 9780544183568
Pages : 73 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (183 downloads)
Download CliffsNotes on Shaw's Pygmalion & Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by Marilynn O Harper and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1981-12-18 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pygmalion, Shaw presents the classical story of a professor who transforms a girl of the lower class into an elegant creature, who then falls in love with him—unfortunately in love, that is. Set in Bulgaria, Arms and the Man satirizes romantic attitudes about love and war. Raina, the heroine, falls in love with a cowardly, chocolate-loving enemy soldier during an unnamed war. After the war, her fiance challenges her new admirer to a duel, loses heart, and proposes to the maid instead.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Release Date : 1972
ISBN 10 : 0803204663
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)
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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 1982
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015004059971
Pages : 168 pages
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Download Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by Bernard Shaw and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this promptbook for Arms and the Man—a composite of notes from four productions directed either wholly or principally by Bernard Shaw—Bernard F. Dukore adds another dimension to the Irishman known primarily as a playwright, wit, and critic. Shaw, according to Dukore, “consistently maintained that directing plays is as crucial a part of a dramatist’s profession as writing them.” He took his role as director quite seriously, exerting almost total control over the production. He cast his own plays, directed them, and even advised on such production matters as lights, music, the use of stage machinery, and the type and placement of props. When German director Max Reinhardt made an unauthorized cut in one of Shaw’s plays, Shaw protested: “May the soul of Reinhardt scream through all eternity in boiling brimstone!” The core of this book comes from the production notes of the 1894 premier of Arms and the Man, but notes from the 1907, 1911, and 1919 performances are included as well. Dukore has made this a composite promptbook rather than a record of a single performance for two reasons: no clear evidence enables him to determine which production the comments pertain to; and Shaw’s interpretation of the play did not change over the years, although he did refine certain aspects. Dukore describes his text and his method of arriving at it: “The directorial comments that face the text derive chiefly from Shaw’s rehearsal notes… In addition, I have employed sketches and notes for blocking, copied from Shaw’s markings in the margins of the l905 and 1908 printings of the play…; extracts from Shaw’s letters to Alma Murray and Lillah MacCarthy, the Rainas of the 1894 and 1907 productions, respectively; and the undated Instructions to Producer of Arms and the Man. The letters and instructions are identified when they appear. Cast lists, with credits for director and designer (where known), of these three productions and of the 1919 production follow.” The play text Dukore used is the second revised printing of volume 1 of the Bodley Head edition of Shaw’s plays (1979). This is the second volume of a Special Issue series published in cooperation with the American Society for Theatre Research. The first was Edward Gordon Craig and “The Pretenders”: A Production Revisited by Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Macmillan Collector's Library
Release Date : 2021-04-06
ISBN 10 : 1529048001
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (529 downloads)
Download Pygmalion & Other Plays PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by Macmillan Collector's Library. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw wrote more than sixty plays and this new volume brings three of his comedies together in one volume - each one is witty, entertaining and has embedded into it Shaw’s intense concerns about poverty, class and inequality. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has a preface by Oscar winning actress Judy Dench. Pygmalion was first performed in 1914 and was an instant hit. It tells the story of Eliza Dolittle, a cockney flower girl who, as an experiment, is given elocution lessons by Professor Henry Higgins to see if he can pass her off as a lady. In Major Barbara, idealistic Barbara is a Major in the Salvation Army whilst her father Andrew Undershaft is a millionaire armaments manufacturer. A battle rages between the two of them as they fight over the question; does salvation come through faith or finance? Androcles and the Lion is a comedy about a gentle Christian who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw. When the Romans try to feed him to the lions, his kindness is repaid.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Release Date : 2011-01
ISBN 10 : 1611044421
Pages : 94 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (611 downloads)
Download Arms and the Man PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely humorous play written by one of Ireland's most famous playwrites. George Bernard was born in Dublin in 1856. Before becoming a playwright he wrote music and literary criticism. Shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. Shaw was particularly conscious of the exploitation of the working class. Arms and the Man tells the story of an overmedicated pompous Judge named Fred Willard. This kangaroo court contains foreign affairs, love, and bigotry. The defendant has the key to peace between Israel and Palestine, but his plans will fail unless he can get court to adjourn.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-03-19
ISBN 10 : 9798627902357
Pages : 198 pages
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Download Pygmalion PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system.In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Release Date : 2021-02
ISBN 10 : 9780198793281
Pages : 544 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (793 downloads)
Download Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 544 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
Author : S. Jain
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 8183560474
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (183 downloads)
Download Women in the Plays of George Bernard Shaw PDF Format Full Free by S. Jain and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a detailed study as well as a critical analysis of George Bernard Shaw and the women characters in his plays. These female characters are from Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Candida, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren s Profession, Saint Joan, Misalliance, The Philanderer. The Study of Shavian Plays forms an integral part of the curriculum of various universities. Hence an attempt has been made to familiarize scholars and researchers of Shaw with some rare and valuable critical material.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 014119507X
Pages : 122 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (141 downloads)
Download Pygmalion PDF Format Full Free by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalionboth delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.