Major Barbara
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0140437908
ISBN-13
9780140437904
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2000
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
138 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 12.90 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscripts
Ksh 1,600.00
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A drama about an armaments king, his daughter in the Salvation army and a foundling Professor of Greek. The society that makes Barbara necessary is repellent, but should we admire or condemn do-gooders like her?
Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque - forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by ''Death and Destruction''? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaw''s most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war.
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