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George Bernard Shaw's Plays: Mrs. Warren's Profession, Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Major Barbara: Contexts and Criticism » (2nd Edition)
Authors: George Bernard Shaw, Sandie (Ed.) Byrne, Sandie Byrne (Editor), Sandie Byrne
ISBN-13: 9780393977530, ISBN-10: 0393977536
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: March 2002
Edition: 2nd Edition
Author Biography: George Bernard Shaw
SANDIE BYRNE is Fellow and Tutor in English at Balliol College, Oxford University. She is the author of Tony Harrison: Loiner, H., V., and O.: The Poetry of Tony Harrison, the Icon Reader's Guide to Ted Hughes, and the Icon Reader's Guide to Mansfield Park.
Book Synopsis
This collection presents a cross-section of Shaw's most important theater work—Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, Major Barbara,
and Pygmalion.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| The Texts of the Plays | ||
| Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898) | 3 | |
| Man and Superman (1903) | 67 | |
| Major Barbara (1907) | 203 | |
| Pygmalion (1914) | 286 | |
| Contexts and Criticism | ||
| On Shaw | 363 | |
| From Edwardian Shaw: The Writer and His Age | 363 | |
| Two Models: Wilde and Ibsen | 370 | |
| The Political Shaw | 382 | |
| Shaw's Life: A Feminist in Spite of Himself | 400 | |
| From Pygmalion's Wordplay | 420 | |
| On Mrs. Warren's Profession | 443 | |
| [Review of Mrs. Warren's Professon] | 443 | |
| Apprenticeship as a Playwright | 445 | |
| On Man and Superman | 450 | |
| [Review of Man and Superman] | 450 | |
| Fatherhood and the Self, or the Philosophy of Comedy | 453 | |
| On Major Barbara | 478 | |
| [Shaw's Blakean Farce] | 478 | |
| Four Fathers for Barbara | 502 | |
| On Pygmalion | 514 | |
| The Daughter in Her Place | 514 | |
| Pygmalion: Myth and Anti-Myth in the Plays of Ibsen and Shaw | 527 | |
| George Bernard Shaw: A Chronology | 539 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 543 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Drama British & Irish Drama
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Drama - Literary Criticism
Fiction Books & Literature Literary Criticism Irish Literature
Drama British & Irish DramaFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Drama - Literary CriticismFiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism Irish Literature
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