Pygmalion

Джордж Бернард Шоу - ирландский прозаик и критик XX века и самый прославленный - после Шекспира -драматург, писавший на английском языке.."Неравный брак" - это одна из самых известных его пьес, в которой прекрасно освещена тема не только неравного брака, но и борьбы женщины за независимость, свободу и право быть самой собой..Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!..

Джордж Бернард Шоу - ирландский прозаик и критик XX века и самый прославленный - после Шекспира - драматург, писавший на английском и языке. ."Кандида" - это остроумная лирическая комедия о вечных и вечно новых отношениях мужчин и женщин. Пьеса расскажет читателю о непонятном и загадочном, не поддающемся рациональному объяснению, и о том, за что женщина может любить мужчину... .Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале! .

Unique edition presented in its definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her...

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...

With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancee comes from her father's income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer,...

One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.