Features the celebrated playwright's four plays--Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman--that are rife with social and military satire, and teeming with ingenuity and brilliance. Reissue.
Features characters such as Professor Higgins and his pupil Eliza Doolittle. This title has been both enhanced and undermined by the musical adaptation "My Fair Lady". It includes an introduction exploring theatrical and historical context, critical reactions to the play, background on the author, s ...
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The wealthy, "respectable" title character's profession is the world's oldest, but Mrs. Warren is unprepared for the reaction of her daughter Vivie when she discovers her mother's occupation. Performers include Kaitlin Hopkins and Shirley Knight.
Questions traditional views of courage and honor through the story of Captain Bluntschli, a Swiss soldier stationed in Bulgaria in the late nineteenth century.
Accompanied by the adaptation and lyrics of the Broadway play My Fair Lady, this fiftieth anniversary edition of Shaw's celebrated play, drawn from the Greek legend of Pygmalion, follows Professor Henry Higgins as he transforms a rough-hewn Cockney girl into a sophisticated lady of society. Original ...
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