Pygmalion - format ePub

The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw is a compelling one-act play that delves into an imagined episode in the life of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, long before he became the Emperor of France. Written...

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After poleaxing his mathematics master with a perfect right, Cashel Byron, the unloved son of a successful actress, runs away to Australia. He returns to England and becomes the most famous prizefighter...

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Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Don Juan,...

.Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902 but was banned after two performances because of the profession talked about. The play...

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and was first presented in German on stage to the...

Set during the American Revolution. Richard Dudgeon, put off by the dour religious ferocity of his mother and many of his neighbors, declares himself to be the devil's disciple, befriends the town's disreputable...

ARDIS Audio Studio brings to your attention the famous play by George Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion", read in the original language. George Bernard Shaw is a brilliant playwright, a classic of English literature...

George Bernard Shaw, a playwright with a few bones to pick of his own, undertakes a surgical analysis of the social philosophies underlying the work of Henrik Ibsen. Focusing his analysis on Ibsen's challenge...

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play reflects...

This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for...

Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society...

George Bernard Shaw è un critico musicale irlandese, drammaturgo, saggista, drammaturgo e sceneggiatore. Acerbo e provocatorio, pacifista e anticonformista, fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la letteratura...

George Bernard Shaw is een Ierse muziekcriticus, toneelschrijver, essayist, toneelschrijver en scenarioschrijver. Hij werd in 1925 bekroond met de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur, een provocerend, pacifistisch...

George Bernard Shaw est un critique musical, dramaturge, essayiste, auteur de pièces de théâtre et scénariste irlandais. Acerbe et provocateur, pacifiste et anticonformiste, il obtient le prix Nobel de...

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300 citations des grands artistes du XXe siècle

500 citations d'humour

With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and...

"Der Amateur-Sozialist" ist ein 1883 erschienener Roman des irischen Schriftstellers George Bernard Shaw. Der Originaltitel lautet "An Unsocial Socialist". George Bernard Shaw, meist auf eigenen Wunsch...

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"Die törichte Heirat" ist ein 1885 erschienener Roman des irischen Schriftstellers George Bernard Shaw. Der Originaltitel lautet "The Irrational Knot". George Bernard Shaw, meist auf eigenen Wunsch nur...

"Cashel Byrons Beruf" ist ein 1882 erschienener Roman des irischen Schriftstellers George Bernard Shaw. Der Originaltitel lautet "Cashel Byron's Profession". George Bernard Shaw, meist auf eigenen Wunsch...

"Künstlerliebe" ist ein 1887 erschienener Roman des irischen Schriftstellers George Bernard Shaw. Der Originaltitel lautet "Love Among the Artists". George Bernard Shaw, meist auf eigenen Wunsch nur...

George Bernard Shaw, meist auf eigenen Wunsch nur Bernard Shaw genannt (geboren 26. Juli 1856 in Dublin, Irland; gestorben 2. November 1950 in Ayot Saint Lawrence, England), war ein irischer Dramatiker,...

Don Juan is more than just an infamous womaniser. For he has been the 'Don Juan' of Bryon's epic poem, the 'Don Giovanni' of Mozart's opera and the main man in the play 'The Trickster of Seville and the...

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Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with class and sexual exploitation. Henrietta, his adoring wife, 'loves' him:...

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