by George Bernard Shaw · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140450217
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Plays Unpleasant is a collection of three plays by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, published in 1898. The collection includes 'Widowers' Houses', 'The Philanderer', and 'Mrs Warren's Profession'. These plays challenge the audience's moral complacency in the face of serious social problems and inequities, using a razor-sharp wit and an innovative approach to address controversial themes. Shaw invented the modern comedy of ideas, expounding on social and political problems with a razor-sharp tongue, yet never sacrificing the comic vitality that ensures regular revivals of his plays.
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.
