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Three plays for puritans / Bernard Shaw ; Definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence with an introduction by Michael Billington.
- Title
- Three plays for puritans / Bernard Shaw ; Definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence with an introduction by Michael Billington.
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Publication
- London ; New York : Penguin, 2000.
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- Description
- xiii, 354 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "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. In The Devil's Disciple, a clergyman turned soldier and the Shavian ideal of a Puritan hero - 'like all genuinely religious men, a reprobate and an outcast' - willingly risks his life for a stranger. Caesar and Cleopatra, a brilliant satire on contemporary Britain, contains an utterly unexpected portrait of Julius Caesar ('part brute, part woman, and part god'). In Captain Brassbound's Conversion, it is Lady Cicely's cunning manipulation of the truth that ensures that fairness, rather than justice, prevails." "Three Plays for Puritans reveals Shaw's constant delight in turning received wisdom upside down and celebrates the triumph of the individual conscience over accepted morality."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Problem plays
- Melodramas (Drama)
- History
- Historical drama
- Drama
- Biographical drama
- Théâtre.
- Théâtre historique.
- Théâtre biographique.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The devil's disciple - Caesar and Cleopatra - Captain Brassbound's conversion.
- ISBN
- 0140437924
- OCLC
- 43971958
- SCSB-11696308
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library