by George Bernard Shaw · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140450200
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«Plays Pleasant» is a collection of plays by playwright George Bernard Shaw, published by Penguin UK in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The volume includes 'Arms and the Man', 'Candida', 'The Man of Destiny' and 'You Never Can Tell'. They satirize military heroism, romantic idealism and Victorian conventions: a mercenary dismantles the glory of war, a poet falls in love with a pastor's wife, Napoleon faces a mysterious lady and a broken family reunites.
The edition belongs to the The Bernard Shaw Library series; the original volume was published in 1898.
For fans of classic theatre and George Bernard Shaw's social satire.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
