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Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547062738
"Man and Superman" is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. It was written in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme and became one of the greatest works in his heritage.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780486159515
This dream episode from Man and Superman forms a play within the play, consisting of a dramatic reading in which the Devil himself comments on heaven and hell, good and evil, and human purpose.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547013518
"The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion" is a political manifesto by George Bernard Shaw dealing with the fact that humans must change their nature. In this book, Shaw demonstrates his socialist and communist ideas. He also writes about eugenics and the creation of supermen.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1420947435
Author : Joseph J. Darowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786463084
Since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has changed with the times to remain a relevant icon of American popular culture. This collection explores the evolution of the Superman character and demonstrates how his alterations mirror historical changes in American society. Beginning with the original comic book and ending with the 2011 Grounded storyline, these essays examine Superman's patriotic heroism during World War II, his increase in power in the early years of the Cold War, his death and resurrection at the end of the Cold War, and his recent dramatic reimagining. By looking at the many changes the Man of Steel has undergone to remain pertinent, this volume reveals as much about America as it does about the champion of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783986475109
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy Bernard Shaw - 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 Kipling. In this powerful drama of ideas, Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and his theory of Creative Evolution. As Stanley Weintraub says in his new introduction, this is "the first great twentieth-century English play" and remains a classic exposé of the eternal struggle between the sexes.
Author : Marv Wolfmans
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779505132
Before he became Superman, Clark Kent was living in a cockroach-infested apartment trying to find a job as a reporter in the big city of Metropolis. If he can't get his life together as Clark Kent, how will he ever become Superman? This new hardcover presents the four-chapter one-shot written by Marv Wolfman with art by Claudio Castellini.
Author : Richard F. Dietrich
Publisher : Florida Bernard Shaw
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813014263
In the five novels he wrote before he became the great Irish playwright everyone knows, George Bernard Shaw worked out the basic design of his public future, fulfilling his own dictum that "no man is real until he has been transmuted into a work of art." R. F. Dietrich stresses Shaw's psychic transformation from a shy, priggish, inept Shelleyan intellectual to an efficient, extroverted, ironically devilish statesman-poet. Amid the decay and death of the old Victorian father figures, the young genius discovers, as James Joyce did later, that he must commit autogenesis and re-create himself as his own authority figure. In the moral and spiritual emptiness of the modern world, Shaw engendered the inherently moral "Superman," who would triumph over circumstances by being a master rather than a slave of reality. Reflecting contemporary critical theory and advances in Shaw studies, this work is a major overhaul of Dietrich's earlier study of Shaw's transformation, going beyond the merely biographical to examine the psychological and symbolic significance of Shaw's fiction. It will be of interest not only to Shaw scholars but to historians of the novel (the Victorian novel in particular), to historians of culture, and to those interested in the psychology and biography of authors and public figures.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015013395408
The theatre / Eric Bentley - Shaw / Louis Kronenberger -- Man and superman and the duel of sex / Martin Meisel -- Heaven, hell, and turn-of-the-century London / Frederick P.W. McDowell -- Don Juan in hell / Louis Crompton -- The play of ideas in Act 3 of Man and superman / Charles A. Berst -- Man and superman / Mau rice Valency -- Ann and superman : type ana archetype / Sally Peters Vogt -- Co medy and dialectic / Nicholas Grene.
Author : Daniel Wallace
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1608871819
In Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) and producer Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy) have delivered a stunning new vision of Superman that is both fresh and familiar. Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman explores the remarkable creative process behind the movie and showcases the exceptional concept art that shaped its unique visual style. From the stark alien vistas of Krypton to the down-to-earth warmth of Smallville, this book uncovers the intensive world-building process that makes Superman’s universe both thrilling and believable. Also featuring in-depth interviews with the cast and crew, and candid on-set photography, Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman is the ultimate insider’s look at one of the most electrifying movies in recent memory. Man of Steel stars Henry Cavill as Superman. Also appearing are three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams (The Fighter) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves). Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator). Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.
Author : John Byrne,Marv Wolfman
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779504920
Following Crisis on Infinite Earths, comic book superstar John Byrne reimagined Superman for a new era in bold tales presented in this new collection! Starting with the six-issue Man of Steel miniseries, Byrne fundamentally changed Superman’s origins and propelled him into the present, including iconic encounters with Lex Luthor, Metallo, and Darkseid! This title collects The Man of Steel #1-6, Superman #1-4, Adventures of Superman #424-428, and Action Comics #584-587.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781473394919
Man and Superman' is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950). The will of the late Mr Whitefield states that his daughter, Ann, is to be left in the care of Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden is a respectable old man who distrusts Tanner, an eloquent gentleman full of revolutionary ideas. Despite Ramsden's protestations, Ann agrees to let Tanner be her guardian and, after a resisting Tanners revolutionary ideas, marries him instead of her persistent admirer, a young man named Octavious Robinson. An engaging and interesting play sure to appeal to discerning drama fans, 'Man and Superman' is a worthy addition to any collection and is not to be missed by fans of Shaw's seminal work. Written in 1903, this book is proudly republished here, complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9788728188118
Don Juan is more than just an infamous womaniser. For he has been the 'Don Juan' of Bryon's epic poem, the 'Don Giovanni' of Mozart's opera and the main man in the play 'The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest'. George Bernard Shaw added to Don Juan's many identities with his play 'Man and Superman', which is a four-act play based on the Don Juan theme. It features John Tanner, an eloquent anarchist who is one of two men named in Mr. Whitefield's will to care for his daughter Ann. The other, wealthy old Roebuck Ramsden, is rejected as guardian by Ann in favour of Tanner. The "political firebrand and confirmed bachelor" is not keen at all: he fears the guardianship will interfere with his commitment to anarchy. But when the two minds collide, the results are unexpected. While Ann gently leads Tanner to rethink his revolutionary ideas, the determined singleton finds himself falling for Ann, despite his close friend wanting to marry her. Will the rebel lose his cause? And who will prevail in the romance race? 'Man and Superman' is perfect for fans of the play 'Private Lives' by Oscar Wilde and 'Endgame' by Samuel Beckett. George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was a giant of the literary and political world at the end of the 19th century and deep into the 20th century. Best known as a playwright, he was also a famous critic, political activist and polemicist, stoking controversy to provoke debate. His first successful play was 'Arms and the Man', followed by classics including 'Man and Superman' and 'Pygmalion', which was turned into the musical 'My Fair Lady'. In 1925, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His opinions still divide critics, but he is widely acknowledged as second only to William Shakespeare as a playwright.
Author : Mark D. White
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118589045
Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the Man of Steel than just your average mythic superhero in a cape? The 20 chapters in this book present a fascinating exploration of some of the deeper philosophical questions raised by Superman, the Last Son of Krypton and the newest hero in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture arsenal.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798889420873
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw was written in 1903 as a four act drama, responding to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905 without the performance of the 3rd Act. A part of the act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on June 4, 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not produced in its entirety until 1915 by the Travelling Repertory Company at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. The long third act of the play is often cut. Don Juan in Hell consists of a philosophical debate between Don Juan (played by the same actor who plays Jack Tanner), and the Devil, with Doña Ana (Ann) and the Statue of Don Gonzalo, Ana's father (Roebuck Ramsden, an aged acquaintance of Tanner's and Ann's Guardian) looking on. Don Juan in Hell is often performed separately as a play in its own right, most famously in the 50's in a concert version with Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Charles Laughton as the Devil, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander, and Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana. This version was also released as a spoken word album on LP, but has yet to appear on CD. However, the complete performance recording is now available at various sites on the Internet. Although Man and Superman can be performed as a light comedy of manners Shaw intended the drama to be something much deeper, as suggested by the title. This title comes from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical ideas about the "Übermensch" ("Superman"). The plot centers on John Tanner, author of "The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion," which is published with the play as a 58-page appendix. Tanner is a confirmed bachelor despite the pursuits of Ann Whitefield and her persistent efforts to make him marry her. Ann is referred to as "the Life Force" and represents Shaw's view that in every culture, it is the women who force the men to marry them rather than the men who take the initiative.