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George Bernard Shaw

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Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano. The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can …

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Major Barbara is a three-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story involves an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as an official in the Salvation Army in London. For many years Barbara and her siblings have been …

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Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling. In this …

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Sainte Jeanne est une pièce de théâtre de George Bernard Shaw publiée en 1924, puis rééditée en 1939. Pièce en un acte, six scènes et un épilogue, elle porte sur les dernières années de Jeanne d'Arc, de 1429 à 1431. L'épilogue est situé en 1456.

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Pygmalion est une pièce de théâtre du dramaturge et compositeur irlandais George Bernard Shaw, représentée pour la première fois le 11 avril 1914 sur la scène de Her Majesty's Theatre, avec Mrs. Patrick Campbell et Herbert Beerbohm Tree dans les rôles principaux. Nommée d'après le personnage mythologique qu'est …