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Plays Unpleasant

Plays Unpleasant

Dan H. Laurence
3.8/5 ( ratings)
With the plays in this 1898 collection-Widower's Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren's Profession-Shaw challenges his audiences' moral complacency in the face of serious social problems and inequities.Author Bio: George Bernard Shaw was one of the most prolific writers of the modern theater. He invented the modern comedy of ideas, expounding on social and political problems with a razor-sharp tongue, yet never sacrificing the comic vitality that ensures regular revivals of his plays. He also wrote several important political works, including The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

Dan H. Lawrence, edited Shaw's Collected Letters, his Collected Plays with their Prefaces, and Shaw's Music and The Complete Prefaces. He is Series Editor for the works of Shaw in Penguin.

David Edgar is a playwright, critic, and professor of Playwriting Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Release
January 18, 1989
ISBN
0140450211
ISBN 13
9780140450217

Plays Unpleasant

Dan H. Laurence
3.8/5 ( ratings)
With the plays in this 1898 collection-Widower's Houses, The Philanderer, and Mrs. Warren's Profession-Shaw challenges his audiences' moral complacency in the face of serious social problems and inequities.Author Bio: George Bernard Shaw was one of the most prolific writers of the modern theater. He invented the modern comedy of ideas, expounding on social and political problems with a razor-sharp tongue, yet never sacrificing the comic vitality that ensures regular revivals of his plays. He also wrote several important political works, including The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

Dan H. Lawrence, edited Shaw's Collected Letters, his Collected Plays with their Prefaces, and Shaw's Music and The Complete Prefaces. He is Series Editor for the works of Shaw in Penguin.

David Edgar is a playwright, critic, and professor of Playwriting Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Release
January 18, 1989
ISBN
0140450211
ISBN 13
9780140450217

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