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  • Audiobook

    A Doctor's Dilemma

    Full Cast Drama

    Unabridged

    3 hours 15 min

    "A Doctor's Dilemma" by George Bernard Shaw is a thought-provoking play that delves into the ethical quandaries faced by Dr. Ridgeon, a talented physician. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century London, the narrative explores Ridgeon's moral struggles as he grapples with the question of who deserves medical treatment when resources are limited. Shaw uses Ridgeon's interactions with his ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    Saint Joan stands out among George Bernard Shaw's plays. He's best known for drawing-room plays exploring social issues; here he writes something closer to a Shakespearean history play, following the fifteenth-century French national hero Joan of Arc through her campaigns and beyond. Shaw's preface to the play argues that other tellings of Joan's story do her a disservice by idealizing her and ... Read more

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  • Back To Methuselah

    George Bernard Shaw published this series of five linked plays in a single volume in 1921. It was first performed in 1922 in New York. We begin in the year 4004 BC. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve discover death, and a serpent teaches them what it is to conceive new life. It is the early twentieth century. The brothers Barnabas are discussing the political need for people to live for three ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    “The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants – and not all of them – have any agreed speech value.After a chance meeting with fellow linguist Colonel Pickering, phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can pass off ... Read more

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  • Saint Joan

    Saint Joan is a 1923 play written by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw depicting the life of Joan of Arc and first published in 1923. ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    "Pygmalion" tells the story of Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics expert, who makes a bet with his colleague Colonel Pickering that he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a working-class flower seller with a strong Cockney accent, into a refined and well-spoken lady. The play explores themes of social class, identity, and the power of language.As Professor Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak, dress, ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

    Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Warren's Profession

    "Mrs. Warren's Profession" explores social issues, particularly the position of women in society, gender roles, and the ethical implications of the sex trade. The play revolves around the relationship between Vivie Warren, a young woman who has recently graduated from university, and her mother, Mrs. Kitty Warren, who is a former prostitute turned brothel owner.The conflict arises as Vivie, who is ... Read more

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  • The Collected Plays (Illustrated) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Anti-romantic comedies, political dramas, and social satire—from Widowers' Houses to Pygmalion—with Chesterton's essay

    The Collected Plays (Illustrated) gathers George Bernard Shaw's dramatic achievement in a form that foregrounds both his verbal brilliance and theatrical imagination. From the anti-romantic satire of Arms and the Man to the social provocations of Mrs Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, and Saint Joan, these plays combine sparkling dialogue, paradox, moral argument, and comic disruption. ... Read more

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  • Heartbreak House

    This vintage book contains George Bernard Shaw's 1919 play, "Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes". Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé attend one of Hesione Hushabye's notorious dinner parties. However, Ellie's partner is a rake, her father is an idiot, and she has amorous feelings for Hesione's husband. It is an adventurous farrago of comedy, tragedy, and ... Read more

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  • Pygmalion

    A Play

    The most successful play by the Nobel Prize–winning Irish playwright, and basis for the movie and Broadway musical My Fair Lady.Based on the Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, George Bernard Shaw's witty adaptation features linguistic expert Professor Henry Higgins, who encounters a cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle. Boasting that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess by teaching her ... Read more

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  • The Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays & Letters of George Bernard Shaw

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Wit and Wisdom of a Literary Icon

    In "The Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays & Letters of George Bernard Shaw," the reader is presented with a rich tapestry of Shaw's intellect and wit, encapsulating a lifetime of critique and commentary on society, politics, and the human condition. Ranging from his incisive articles on social reform to thought-provoking essays on art and culture, this collection mirrors Shaw's distinctive ... Read more

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