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- Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara (häftad, eng)

Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara (häftad, eng)
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Its story of how a sensitive woman compels a superman-figure to adjust to her needs and those of the real world provides an updated commentary on Nietzsche''s still-fashionable notions of ubermensch; and its famous third act introduces a persistent Shavian theme, which goes back as far as earliest religious literature-that the truly damned are those who are happy in hell.John Bull''s Other Island takes up that idea: to the visionary, hell may be the ultimate modern dream of efficiency and rational administration, as manifested in a colonial Ireland run by liberal exploiters.
Commissioned by WB Yeats to mark the opening of Ireland''s National Theatre, the Abbey, the play was promptly refused by its Directors (who disliked its mechanical mockeries of mechanism but may have missed its visionary qualities). It was performed to huge acclaim in London in November 1904 and it made Shaw famous, the supreme example of the Playwright as Thinker and, ever afterwards, one of the most valued commentators on Anglo-Irish relations.
Major Barbara: a three-act drama which in classic Shavian style unmasks the motivation of puritan idealists and dedicated industrialists, this work (like the previous two) pits a strong woman against a sardonic, practical man. Having exposed the mendacity of apostles of efficiency, Shaw seems then to submit to their doctrine, arguing that a pure private charity towards the destitute is no adequate substitute.
Like the previous two works, this is a problem play, in the course of which the audience sympathy is aroused and then repelled in all directions. The suggestion that it may be acceptable to take money from tainted sources, such as arms manufacturers, caused much debate in 1905---and even more after the carnage wrought by mechanized guns in World War One.
| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 720 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Oxford University Press |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2021-08-30 |
| ISBN | 9780198828853 |
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Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 720
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Oxford University Press
- Utgivningsdatum 2021-08-30
- ISBN 9780198828853
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