Androcles and the Lion - Couverture souple

Shaw, George Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582532523 ISBN 13 : 9780582532526

Editeur : Prentice Hall Press

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was a Nobel-Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950. Originally earning his way as an influential London music and theatre critic, Shaw's greatest gift was for the modern drama. Strongly influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he successfully introduced a new realism into English-language drama. He wrote more than 60 plays, among them Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Pygmalion. With his range from biting contemporary satire to historical allegory, Shaw became the leading comedy dramatist of his generation and one of the most important playwrights in the English language since the 17th century.

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George Bernard Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion (1912) makes Androcles a tailor; he is also given Christian beliefs for the purposes of the play, which on the whole takes a skeptical view of religion. 1912 was also the date of the first film adaptation of the story in the USA. Afterwards there were several others for both cinema and TV.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall Press
• ISBN 10: 0582532523
• ISBN 13: 9780582532526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208