George Bernard Shaw: Plays Pleasant

G.B. Shaw dráma gyűjteménye eredeti nyelven.
ISBN: 9780140437942
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Page: 320
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2003
Format: Cassette
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Language: English

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One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a ‘strange lady’, while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell adivided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.

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