Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling by Dan Laurence
This volume features the play Misalliance, which explores the incongruities of human nature and family life, and Shaw's one-act burlesque, The Fascinating Foundling.
Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling
Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling
Summary
Features the play "Misalliance", which explores the incongruities of human nature and family life, and Shaw's one-act burlesque, "The Fascinating Foundling".
Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling Summary
About Dan Laurence
BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on Common Sense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question (1917) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as Music in London 1890-1894 (3 vols, 1931); Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931); and Our Theatres in the Nineties (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five novels and some shorter fiction, including The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales and Cashel Byron's Profession, both published in Penguin's Bernard Shaw Library.
He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: 'Plays Pleasant'; 'Plays Unpleasant'; comedies; chronicle-plays; 'metabiological Pentateuch' (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and 'political extravaganzas'. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.
Additional information
GOR003288510
9780140450415
0140450416
Misalliance and the Fascinating Foundling by Dan Laurence
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
1995-02-02
224
N/A
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