Selected Short Plays by Shaw, George Bernard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page CONTENTS SELECTED SHORT PLAYS

The Admirable Bashville

PREFACE ACT I ACT II ACT III

How He Lied to Her Husband Passion, Poison and Petrifaction The Glimpse of Reality The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

PREFACE

Contents HOW THE PLAY CAME TO BE WRITTEN THOMAS TYLER FRANK HARRIS HARRIS ‘DURCH MITLEID WISSEND’ ‘SIDNEY’S SISTER: PEMBROKE’S MOTHER’ SHAKESPEAR’S SOCIAL STANDING THIS SIDE IDOLATRY SHAKESPEAR’S PESSIMISM GAIETY OF GENIUS JUPITER AND SEMELE THE IDOL OF THE BARDOLATERS SHAKESPEAR’S ALLEGED SYCOPHANCY AND PERVERSION SHAKESPEAR AND DEMOCRACY SHAKESPEAR AND THE BRITISH PUBLIC POSTSCRIPT 1933

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PREFACE

Contents THE ALLEVIATIONS OF MONOGAMY INACCESSIBILITY OF THE FACTS THE CONVENTION OF JEALOUSY THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION THE FAVORITE SUBJECT OF FARCICAL COMEDY THE PSEUDO SEX PLAY ART AND MORALITY THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION PRUDERIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE OUR DISILLUSIVE SCENERY HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE FARCICAL COMEDY SHIRKING ITS SUBJECT

The Music-Cure Great Catherine

THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE THE FIRST SCENE THE SECOND SCENE THE THIRD SCENE THE FOURTH SCENE

The Inca of Perusalem O’Flaherty V.C. Augustus Does His Bit Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress Village Wooing

FIRST CONVERSATION SECOND CONVERSATION THIRD CONVERSATION

The Six of Calais

PREFATORY THE SIX OF CALAIS

Cymbeline Refinished

FOREWORD ACT V