Dan Laurence: 3 books
Plays Extravagant
Too True to be Good, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The Millionairess
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1991
This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles".
Plays Political
The Apple Cart, On the Rocks, Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 1999
While some of Shaw’s earlier plays are still performed, his later plays, such as the ones in this volume, are barely known. As the collective title indicates, the themes here are political; yet, frankly, it is doubtful how seriously we can now take Shaw as a political thinker. Despite writing in...
by Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 1994
‘A tearing, flaring, revivalist drama’ was how Desmond MacCarthy described The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Set in America’s Wild West and aptly subtitled ‘A Sermon in Crude Melodrama’, this single-act play concerns the conversion of a horse thief desperate to ‘keep the devil’ in him...