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Plays Extravagant: Too True to be Good, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The Millionairess (Bernard Shaw Library)

Plays Extravagant: Too True to be Good, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, The Millionairess (Bernard Shaw Library)

by George Bernard Shaw (Author), Dan Laurence (Author)

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    Paperback 1991

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This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes The Millionairess , Too True to be Good and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles .

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 28 Nov 1991
ISBN 10: 0140450319
ISBN 13: 9780140450316
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

Author Bio
BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on Common Sense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question (1917) and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as Music in London 1890-1894 (3 vols, 1931); Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931); and Our Theatres in the Nineties (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five novels and some shorter fiction, including The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales and Cashel Byron's Profession, both published in Penguin's Bernard Shaw Library. He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: `Plays Pleasant'; `Plays Unpleasant'; comedies; chronicle-plays; `metabiological Pentateuch' (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and `political extravaganzas'. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.