George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness-coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age-as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable.
"My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world."-G. B. Shaw
With an Introduction by Eric Bentley
and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd
| ISBN: | 9780451529442 |
| Publication date: | 3rd August 2004 |
| Author: | Bernard Shaw |
| Publisher: | Signet an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 488 pages |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts Anthologies: general Literary studies: plays and playwrights |
George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishness-coating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman, the great playwright satirizes society, military heroism, marriage, and the pursuit of man by woman. From a social, literary, and theatrical standpoint, these four plays are among the foremost dramas of the age-as intellectually stimulating as they are thoroughly enjoyable.
"My way of joking is to tell the truth: It is the funniest joke in the world."-G. B. Shaw
With an Introduction by Eric Bentley
and an Afterword by Norman Lloyd
Plays features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Plays is available in Paperback
Plays was written by Bernard Shaw and published by Signet an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Plays has 488 pages