BACK TO METHUSELAH (Oberon Modern Plays) - Hardcover

Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840021888 ISBN 13: 9781840021882

Verlag: Oberon Modern Plays, 2001

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"Listen, I will tell you a great secret. I am very subtle; and I have thought and thought and thought." Back to Methuselah was first published in 1921 and first performed a year later. David Fielding’s abridgement makes it possible to play this five-part visionary epic over one evening. It was specially commissioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 revival to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Shaw’s death.



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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright and critic, whose plays are famous for their wit, eloquence and interest in provocative ideas. Inspired mainly by the social dramas of Ibsen, he began to write plays of his own while working as an arts critic, though they were not performed until later. His play Mrs Warren's Profession was banned by the Lord Chamberlain until 1925. Unable to find commercial audiences for his plays, Shaw wrote extensive Prefaces for them, elaborating on the social and moral themes that they explore. Subsequent plays include Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, Back to Methuselah, and Saint Joan. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925, and an Academy Award in 1938, for the screenplay of the film adaptation of Pygmalion, a film which would later form the basis for My Fair Lady.

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• Verlag: Oberon Modern Plays
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840021888
• ISBN 13: 9781840021882
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
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