El ingenio desplegado por George Bernard Shaw en sus obras de teatro y escritos logró convertirlo en uno de los más lúcidos analistas de la sociedad londinense de principios de siglo. Shaw cuestiona el convencionalismo y explicita el pensamiento obvio, muestra las paradojas de la vida y de las conductas que llamamos normales o habituales.
Santa y heroína francesa, Juana de Arco fue quemada en la hoguera a los 19 años por herejía y brujería tras su participación decisiva en la Guerra de los Cien Años, que enfrentó a Francia e Inglaterra, guiada por voces de origen divino que escucho desde muy joven.Revolucionando el teatro de su epoca y rehuyendo con ironia el drama historico tradicional, George Bernard Shaw reconstruye en Santa Juana, su obra cumbre, las hazañas de una mujer rebelde, visionaria y esencialmente humana.Esta edicion recoge el prefacio integro que el autor escribio para la publicacion original.
Don Juan is more than just an infamous womaniser. For he has been the Don Juan of Bryons epic poem, the Don Giovanni of Mozarts opera and the main man in the play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest. George Bernard Shaw added to Don Juans many identities with his play Man and Superman, which is a four-act play based on the Don Juan theme.It features John Tanner, an eloquent anarchist who is one of two men named in Mr. Whitefields will to care for his daughter Ann. The other, wealthy old Roebuck Ramsden, is rejected as guardian by Ann in favour of Tanner. The "political firebrand and confirmed bachelor" is not keen at all: he fears the guardianship will interfere with his commitment to anarchy.But when the two minds collide, the results are unexpected. While Ann gently leads Tanner to rethink his revolutionary ideas, the determined singleton finds himself falling for Ann, despite his close friend wanting to marry her.Will the rebel lose his cause? And who will prevail in the romance race? Man and Superman is perfect for fans of the play Private Lives by Oscar Wilde and Endgame by Samuel Beckett.
Do you like Pretty Woman, with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere? Do you love Maid in Manhattan, starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes? And how about little orphan Annie? Well, Pygmalion is the play that paved the ways for these - and countless other - rags-to-riches films, plays, and books.In it, phonetics scientist professor Henry Higgins and linguist Colonel Pickering make a bet. The scientist wagers that he can turn Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a woman with the poise and diction of a duchess. She is given new clothes, speech lessons - and subjected to merciless ridicule. Becoming Shaws most famous play, Pygmalion throws blinding light on the invidious habits and traditions at both levels of society.
