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Chargement... Misalliance ; The dark lady of the sonnets ; and, Fanny's first play with a treatise on parents and childrenpar Bernard Shaw
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This collection features Bernard Shaw's dramas "Misalliance" and "Fanny's First Play," as well as an essay entitled "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, has a prologue of typical Shaw attention to detail, that gives us the background to the short play about Shakespeare, in which George stages a response to a play written by Frank Harris on Shakespeare. Essentially the idea is to whittle at the myth perpetrated by those who suffer from 'Bardolatary', a position of idolising Shakespeare to the extent of ignoring circumstance, personality, company and class of the poet. It's a comic play written with brevity, and sharply executed. I can't write about the plot, as it would spoil the surprises.
Finally, my favourite, Fanny's First Play, George describes it as a potboiler which examines the substitution of custom for conscience. Which is an interesting view of morality and immorality, and how these words have become the blanketed statement for anything which is considered either good or bad, without actually determining what exactly the goodness or badness is of the matter. Shaw takes a few swipes at critics of the day (The play was initially performed as an anon but later Shaw's authorship was attributed to it). It's a play within a play, and Shaw brings himself into the dialogue of the critics - an in-joke I much enjoy, as I've experienced with some other authors, of whom I forget, I've got Mayakovsky on my mind but I don't think it was him. Or maybe it was Pope. Or perhaps it was actually a previous work of Shaw that I've read. Never matter. It's always mirthful to come across the author poking fun at himself/herself. "Great brain but no heart" was one of Shaw's comments about himself as spoken by a critic.
I recommend these works by Shaw, they topple with Shaw's arrogance at times, but also let loose with playful wit, they provide pockets of insight to what pretences families operate under, and they are concerned with personal liberties and freedoms that are pertinent parts of our human function, in a timeless fashion.
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