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Paperback Bernard Shaw's Plays Book

ISBN: 0393099423

ISBN13: 9780393099423

Bernard Shaw's Plays

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Shaw is hilariously one of the most thoughtful playwrites

I think that Shaw is generally misread in this part of the twentieth century. In particular, Too Good to be True, is highly outdated, and therefore highly incomprehensible. That makes it even funnier, and more enjoyable to think about. In every one of these plays, Shaw more or less, in different ways, concludes that the world is coming to an end. The death in the Doctors Dilema, the Dynamite in Major Barbara, The depression and outright declaration that "The world...is falling down, down, into the abyss" in Too Good to be True, and the war and sort of joke of war in Saint Joan, not to mention the portrayal of a Saint, all relate to that dire, but humorous topic. I especially recommend Too Good to be True. Featuring a measles microbe and the Union of Socially Federated States, this is an excellent read.
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