『ピグマリオン』は、ジョージ・バーナード・ショーによる戯曲。舞台ミュージカル『マイ・フェア・レディ』およびその映画化作品『マイ・フェア・レディ』の原作にもなった。『マイ・フェア・レディ・イライザ』という日本語の訳題も存在する。1912年に完成したが、1913年にウィーンで初演。ロンドンの公演では名女優パトリック・キャンベル夫人が演じて大好評を博し、ショーをイギリスで著名な劇作家に押し上げた。 …
With Saint Joan, Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc (canonized in 1920), but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan: proud, intolerant, naïve, foolhardy, always brave-a rebel who challenged the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
『ピグマリオン』は、ジョージ・バーナード・ショーによる戯曲。舞台ミュージカル『マイ・フェア・レディ』およびその映画化作品『マイ・フェア・レディ』の原作にもなった。『マイ・フェア・レディ・イライザ』という日本語の訳題も存在する。1912年に完成したが、1913年にウィーンで初演。ロンドンの公演では名女優パトリック・キャンベル夫人が演じて大好評を博し、ショーをイギリスで著名な劇作家に押し上げた。 …
Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collection, Three Plays for Puritans. It was …