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Bernard Shaw

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
1 January 2007
Pages
408
ISBN
9781430477280

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Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot, and would go on to address this in many of his works. In 1876, Shaw joined his mother in London where he would finally attain literary success. He used the stage to deliver messages to his audiences in the hope of bettering society. Shaw’s vision was not just to reconcile issues within his society, but to encourage mankind to strive for a sort of perfection close to divinity. In this edition we have three of Shaw’s shorter plays. “How He Lied to Her Husband” is the story of Henry Apjohn how is having an affair with Aurora Bompas, the wife of Teddy. “The Fascinating Foundling” is the story of how a lawyer and his aide unwittingly help two very picky people, when it comes to dating, find each other. Also contained in this volume is “The Glimpse of Reality”.

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