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20 produkter

1. 

   Man and Superman

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 2000

   139 kr

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   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 …

2. 

   Heartbreak House

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 2000

   152 kr

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   When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione protests vigorously against the pragmatic young woman's choice. Opinion on the matter quickly …

3. 

   Major Barbara

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 2000

   126 kr

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   Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But …

4. 

   Saint Joan

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 2001

   152 kr

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   One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and …

5. 

   Plays Unpleasant

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 2000

   179 kr

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   With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first …

6. 

   Plays Pleasant

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 2003

   190 kr

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   One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, …

7. 

   Doctor's Dilemma

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 1987

   179 kr

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   Shaw's humorous satire of the medical profession.

8. 

   Plays Political

   The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   Häftad, 1990

   179 kr

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   While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in …

9. 

   Man and Superman

   Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

   E-bok, 2000

   94 kr

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   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 …

10. 

    Plays Unpleasant

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 2005

    108 kr

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    With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first …

11. 

    Heartbreak House

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 2005

    108 kr

    Lägg i varukorg

    When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione protests vigorously against the pragmatic young woman's choice. Opinion on the matter quickly …

12. 

    Saint Joan

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 2003

    79 kr

    Lägg i varukorg

    One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and …

13. 

    Major Barbara

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 2005

    79 kr

    Lägg i varukorg

    Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But …

14. 

    Androcles and the Lion

    Av Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw

    E-bok, 2006

    113 kr

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    Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw.Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. …

15. 

    Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Fanny's First Play

    Av Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw

    E-bok, 1994

    108 kr

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    ‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled ‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the devil’ in him and die game. …

16. 

    Doctor's Dilemma

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 1987

    125 kr

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    Shaw's humorous satire of the medical profession.

17. 

    Plays Political

    The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 1999

    147 kr

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    While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in …

18. 

    Plays Extravagant

    Too True to be Good, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The Millionairess

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 1991

    125 kr

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    This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles".

19. 

    Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 1995

    105 kr

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    This volume features the play Misalliance, which explores the incongruities of human nature and family life, and Shaw's one-act burlesque, The Fascinating Foundling.

20. 

    Last Plays

    "in Good King Charles's Golden Days"; Buoyant Billions; Farfetched Fables; Shakes Versus Shav; Why She Would not

    Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence

    E-bok, 2013

    113 kr

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    In Good King Charles's Golden Days: a true history that never happened. A discussion play; the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr Rowley'), Isaac Newton, George Fox and the artist Godfrey Kneller. Buoyant Billions: a comedy of no manners.Farfetched …