Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch - Hardcover

Shaw, George Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195001818 ISBN 13: 9780195001815

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1947

Synopsis

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: English drama; Literary Collections / General; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction / General; Drama / General; Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / Shakespeare; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare;

About this title

About the Author:

BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. Although essentially shy, he created the persona of G. B. S., the showman, satirist, controversialist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and dramatist. Commentators brought a new adjective into English: Shavian, a term used to embody all his brilliant qualities. 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: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1947
• ISBN 10: 0195001818
• ISBN 13: 9780195001815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 261