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Chargement... Three Plays for Puritans (1901)par Bernard Shaw
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was a simple play in 3 acts. The protagonist is known to be anti-religion??? However, in the end, we do see that his heart is not all black. Meh........100 pages ( ) This is a fantasy by Shaw regarding a kidnapping of Europeans by a pack of Barbary corsairs. Of course, very little is as it initially seems to be. The chief corsair is a an Englishman robbed of his ancestral lands in England, who is raising money to recover his rights by legal proceedings! There is a rather sketchy romantic sub-plot, and a very small resemblance to what later became known as "The Percardis Affair" when an international incident was caused by a kidnapping by Morocan tribesmen. However, this play was written and produced for the English stage four years before the experience of the unhappy Greek-American school teacher. It is relatively amusing and has been revived on the stage several times since 1900. I enjoyed these plays. Although none of them struck me quite as deeply as Candida did. I'd like to go back and read Caesar and Cleopatra again after now having read Plutarch's Lives. I remember some of the duplicated scenes and would like to see how Shaw elaborated on what Plutarch wrote. Shaw's research must have included Plutarchs work. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série éditorialePenguin Plays (2)
Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of three plays of ideas, The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these plays, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms--Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story--to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil's Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines heroism in the character of the ageing Roman leader. And in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer's skilful manipulation of the truth. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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