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Man and Superman : A Comedy and a Philosophy

  • Author: George Bernard Shaw
  • ISBN 10: 014045019X
  • ISBN 13: 9780140450194
  • Release: January 18, 1989
  • Format: Paperback (272 pages)
  • List Price: $9.95
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    List Price: $9.95

    Tags: Literature & Fiction, Drama, British & Irish,

    Book Description:
    "Man and Superman" shows Shaw's wit at its most brilliant and his speculations at their boldest.The play, as Shaw explains in the preface, is on the Don Juan theme. Taking all the ingredients of the legend, as used by Mozart in "Don Giovanni," Shaw reordered them to write a four-act play in which, characteristically, he turned the story on its head so that Don Juan becomes 'the quarry instead of the huntsman'. While "Man and Superman" contains high comedy of the order of Congreve, it is also a powerful drama of ideas in which Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society and his theory of Creative Evolution, a theme to which he returned twenty years later in his great dramatic cycle "Back to Methuseleh."

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