Major Barbara
Author: Bernard Shaw
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 170
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Author: Bernard Shaw
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 170
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 145
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Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published: 2021-09-19
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 3985948615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMajor Barbara Bernard Shaw - Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated sermons on moral and economic issues, a potentially dry theatrical experience enlivened by Shaw's genius for creating vital characters and scintillating dialogue. Major Barbara offers a sparkling example of its author's unique gift for presenting social theories in an engaging format.The eponymous heroine, an officer in the Salvation Army, is the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy armaments manufacturer. When the Army accepts donations from Undershaft and a whiskey distiller, whose money Barbara regards as tainted, she resigns in disgust, but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other.
Author: Bernard Shaw
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 392
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 388
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Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Bernard Shaw
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Published: 2021-05-30
Total Pages: 133
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLady Britomart Undershaft, the daughter of a British earl, and her son Stephen discuss a source of income for her grown daughters Sarah, who is engaged to Charles Lomax, and Barbara, who is engaged to Adolphus Cusins. Lady Britomart leads Stephen to accept her decision that they must ask her estranged husband, Andrew Undershaft, for financial help. Mr. Undershaft is a successful and wealthy businessman who has made millions of pounds from his munitions factory, which manufactures the world-famous Undershaft guns, cannons, torpedoes, submarines and aerial battleships.When their children were still small, the Undershafts separated; now grown, the children have not seen their father since, and Lady Britomart has raised them by herself. During their reunion, Undershaft learns that Barbara is a major in The Salvation Army who works at their shelter in West Ham, east London. Barbara and Mr. Undershaft agree that he will visit Barbara's Army shelter, if she will then visit his munitions factory.
Author: Jean Reynolds
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-02-28
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 3030960714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls “the problem of language.” Nearly every character in Major Barbara produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins is Eliza’s acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershaft’s Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity? Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday lives—sometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them.
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-06-25
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781534895812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMajor Barbara by George Bernard Shaw..... An officer of The Salvation Army, Major Barbara Undershaft, becomes disillusioned when her Christian denomination accepts money from an armaments manufacturer (her father) and a whisky distiller. She eventually decides that bringing a message of salvation to people who have plenty will be more fulfilling and genuine than converting the starving in return for bread. Although Barbara initially regards the Salvation Army's acceptance of Undershaft's money as hypocrisy, Shaw did not intend that it should be thought so by the audience. Shaw wrote a preface for the play's publication, in which he derided the idea that charities should only take money from "morally pure" sources. He points out that donations can always be used for good, whatever their provenance, and he quotes a Salvation Army officer, "they would take money from the devil himself and be only too glad to get it out of his hands and into God's."
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-11-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781502943170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe play focuses on the quest for salvation between two opposing sides, a wealthy man who owns a munitions factory and his daughter, a Salvation Army worker. Each attempts to convert the other to their viewpoint and in the process, questions the role and meaning of morality, religion, wealth, virtue, and industrialization in society.