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Three Plays for Puritans (Penguin Classics) Book

Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these three plays of ideas, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil's Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines heroism in the character of the ageing Roman leader. And in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer's skilful manipulation of the truth.Read More

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  • Penguin

    'I am as fond of fine music and handsome buildings as Milton was, or Cromwell, or Bunyan; but if I found that they were becoming the instruments of a systematic idolatry of sensuousness, I would hold it good statesmanship to blow up every cathedral in the world to pieces with dynamite' Disgusted and bored by the trend for titillation and sham on the London stage, Shaw wrote these plays both to educate and entertain his audiences.

  • Product Description

    This volume reveals Shaw's constant delight in turning received wisdom upside down and celebrates the triumph of individual conscience over accepted morality. The volume comprises The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion.

  • 0140437924
  • 9780140437928
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • 27 July 2006
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • New Ed
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