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Plays Pleasant

By Shaw, George Bernard

Plays Pleasant Contemporary literature

Plays Pleasant

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One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a 'strange lady', while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2003-03-27
Publication Date:
2003-03-27
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140437940
ISBN13:
9780140437942
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
253 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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