Plays Pleasant
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0140437940
ISBN-13
9780140437942
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 27th, 2003
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
246 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 12.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Plays, playscripts
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Includes the plays "Arms and the Man", "The Man of Destiny", and "You Never Can Tell".
One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a ‘strange lady’, while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended Plays Pleasant to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, Plays Unpleasant, their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.
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