Plays Extravagant (Shaw Library) - Softcover

Shaw, George Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140450319 ISBN 13: 9780140450316

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1992

Synopsis

This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles".

About this title

About the Author:

BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on Common Sense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question (1917) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as Music in London 1890-1894 (3 vols, 1931); Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931); and Our Theatres in the Nineties (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five novels and some shorter fiction, including The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales and Cashel Byron's Profession, both published in Penguin's Bernard Shaw Library. He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: `Plays Pleasant'; `Plays Unpleasant'; comedies; chronicle-plays; `metabiological Pentateuch' (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and `political extravaganzas'. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140450319
• ISBN 13: 9780140450316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320