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Dan H. Laurence

    Dan H. Laurence fut professeur d'anglais et conseiller littéraire et dramatique pour la succession de George Bernard Shaw. En tant qu'érudit de Shaw, Laurence consacra sa carrière à la compilation des œuvres de Shaw et à la rédaction de livres sur lui. Son engagement dans l'étude de Shaw fut si profond qu'il quitta un poste de professeur à la New York University pour se rapprocher d'une importante archive shawienne. Ses efforts universitaires éclairent l'héritage durable de ce dramaturge essentiel.

    Man and Superman
    Selected Short Plays
    Pygmalion
    • In each of these fifteen short plays, Bernard Shaw displays an immense skill in achieving an immediate dramatic impact - a skill that he recognized as being greatly dependent on the talent of the actors and actresses with whom he worked. Though some of the sketches are slight, others offer short but intense scrutinies of the morality and sensibility of the age. Together they demonstrate a range of moods - comedy, satire, farce and social protest - through which the more familiar Shavian themes emerge, among them the inadequacies of the contemporary government and the "inflated" reputation enjoyed by Shakespeare.

      Selected Short Plays1987
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