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Paradoxen Poe : Edgar Allan Poe som inspiratör och föregångare
Av Lars Nyberg, D. H. Lawrence m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
248 kr
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Med sin nydanande stil och sitt intresse för det mänskliga psykets skuggsidor har Edgar Allan Poe varit en inflytelserik föregångar till såväl symbolister, naturalister och modernister i litteraturhistorien. Han kan dessutom sägas vara skaparen av science fiction- och detektivgenrerna. I denna …
Pygmalion
Häftad, 2003
139 kr
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'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect …
Pygmalion
Häftad, 2021
113 kr
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.
Pygmalion
Häftad, 2021
61 kr
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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.
Pygmalion
E-bok, 2021
112 kr
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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913.
Pygmalion
E-bok, 2003
96 kr
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'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Heartbreak House
Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence
E-bok, 2005
108 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 …
Saint Joan
Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence
E-bok, 2003
79 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 …
Major Barbara
Av George Bernard Shaw, Dan Laurence
E-bok, 2005
79 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 …
Plays Pleasant
E-bok, 2003
136 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, …
Three Plays for Puritans
E-bok, 2006
136 kr
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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 three plays of ideas, Shaw employed …
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. …
Back to Methuselah
E-bok, 1987
125 kr
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Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) is a 1921 series of five plays and a preface by George Bernard Shaw. The five plays are:In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden); The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day; The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170; Tragedy of an Elderly …
Selected Short Plays
E-bok, 1988
125 kr
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This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE" "THE INCA OF PERUSALEM" "O'FLAHERTY V.C." "AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT" "ANNAJANSKA, …
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. …
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.
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 …
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".
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.
