Major Barbara

Author : Jean Reynolds
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030960711

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Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion by Jean Reynolds Pdf

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls “the problem of language.” Nearly every character in Major Barbara produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins is Eliza’s acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershaft’s Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity? Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday lives—sometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008446158

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Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw Pdf

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0898702372

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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton Pdf

The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton is an ongoing project, edited by many of the most prominent Chesterton scholars in the world, including Dale Ahlquist, Denis Conlon, George Marlin, Lawrence Clipper, and many others. These handsome editions include explanatory footnotes, introductory essays, and much more.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435013968862

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John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw Pdf

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: also How He Lied to Her Husband by Bernard Shaw Pdf

Author : Tony J. Stafford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048550

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Shaw's Settings by Tony J. Stafford Pdf

Picture the young George Bernard Shaw spending long days in the Reading Room of the British Museum, pursuing a self-taught education, all the while longing for the green landscapes of his native Ireland. It is no coincidence that gardens and libraries often set the scene for Shaw's plays, yet scholars have seldom drawn attention to the fact until now. Exposing the subtle interplay of these two settings as a key pattern throughout Shaw’s dramas, Shaw's Settings fills the need for a systematic study of setting as significant to the playwright's work as a whole. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a different play and a different usage of gardens and libraries, showing that these venues are not just background for action, they also serve as metaphors, foreshadowing, and insight into characters and conflicts. The vital role of Shaw's settings reveals the astonishing depth and complexity of the playwright's dramatic genius.

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1595402454

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Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw Pdf

When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.

Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521558778

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Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society by Bryan Cheyette Pdf

Combining cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with readings of the works of major contemporary authors, this study concludes that "the Jew" is characterized unstereotypically as the embodiment of uncertainty within English literature and society.

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822007423486

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The doctor's dilemma. Pygmalion. Major Barbara. Heartbreak House. Captain Brassbound's conversion. The man of destiny. Androcles and the lion by Bernard Shaw Pdf

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547057734

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Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw Pdf

Major Barbara is one of the most beloved plays by Nobel laureate George Bernard Shaw. The story explores the life of an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, committed to helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For several years, Barbara and her siblings have been distant from their father, Andrew Undershaft. But things take a turn when he reappears in their life as a wealthy and successful ammunition maker.

Author : Kay Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319410036

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Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture by Kay Li Pdf

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings. With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike.

Author : J. L. Wisenthal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674550854

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The Marriage of Contraries by J. L. Wisenthal Pdf

This reading of Bernard Shaw focuses on his habit of seeing the world in terms of contraries, a habit related to his basic rejection of absolutes, his distaste for finality. The author examines nine of Shaw's finest plays: Man and Superman, Major Barbara, John Bull's Other Island, The Doctor's Dilemma, Pygmalion, Misalliance, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, and Back to Methuselah. The book takes seriously Shaw's claim that all of his characters are "right from their several points of view." We are compelled to respect the qualities and values of opposing and very different characters in these plays, and we also have a sense of their complementary defects. J. L. Wisenthal's commentary sheds light on Shaw's techniques of portrayal as well as his dialectical habit of mind. This finely written essay is for all lovers of Shaw and the theater.

Author : Peter Swallow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192868565

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Aristophanes in Britain by Peter Swallow Pdf

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues--making Old Comedy new. The book examines two strands of Aristophanic reception: the political and the aesthetic. From the start of the long-nineteenth century, the British reception of Aristophanes tied into contemporary political debate, as historians, translators and commentators, and even the burlesque writer J.R. Planché activated Aristophanes in support of their own political positions. But each writer's conceptualisation of Aristophanes was as different as their political outlooks. While many writers who appropriated Aristophanes for their cause were Tories, a notable outlier is Percy Shelley, whose Aristophanic drama Swellfoot the Tyrant activated Old Comedy to argue for democratic republicanism--what we would now call a left-wing political revolution. The second strand of Aristophanic reception, which developed from around the middle of the nineteenth century, actively depoliticised Old Comedy and instead received it through an aesthetic lens. The aesthetics of Aristophanes--with an emphasis on the beautiful and the archaeological--also lay behind school and university productions of Old Comedy during this period. These strands of nineteenth-century Aristophanic reception find synthesis towards the book's conclusion. Edwardian women's receptions of Aristophanes show how activists used his plays to argue for equal educational opportunities and the right to vote. In the final chapter, Gilbert Murray and George Bernard Shaw's receptions reveal both the political and artistic potential of Aristophanes.

Author : Sally Mackey,Simon Cooper
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0748751688

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Drama and Theatre Studies by Sally Mackey,Simon Cooper Pdf

Revised and expanded edition for use with all Drama and Theatre Studies A & AS specifications.

Author : L. W. Conolly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031042416

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Bernard Shaw on the American Stage by L. W. Conolly Pdf

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was America’s most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outnumbered only by Shakespeare. Forty-four of Shaw’s plays were staged in America before his death, eight more posthumously. Eleven of the productions were world premieres. Bernard Shaw on the American Stage tells the story of the fifty-two premieres, which, apart from a few fragments, is his total dramatic oeuvre. The book also includes, again for the first time, production data and concise overviews of dozens of the most notable American revivals of the plays, from the 1890s to the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. Illustrations—production photographs, programmes, theatre buildings, playbills, actors’ studio portraits— inform the study throughout.