Man And Superman by George Shaw

Man And Superman by George Shaw

Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903, Although Man and Superman can be performed as a light. comedy of manners, Shaw intended the drama to be something much deeper, as suggested by the title, which contes from Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical ideas about the bermensch. As Shaw notes in his Epistle Dodicatory he wrote the play as a pretext fora propaganda of our own views of life. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Sluow, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist His influence on Western theatre, culture and politica extended from the 1980s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1973). With a range incorporating hoth contemporary satine and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Shaw, George: - George G. Shaw was born in 1872 in Long Lake in the Adirondacks Region of New York. He set forth on his adventures from Vermont to which his father had moved the family in 1890. After returning to Vermont in 1901 he tried a few jobs and traveled a bit more, then in 1920 married and settled down as a Vermont farmer until his death in 1958. His son George B. Shaw, born in Bridport Vermont, listened to his father's stories over the years, wrote them down, and compiled them into a manuscript that his daughter typed in 1980.

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ISBN 13	9780140480061
ISBN 10	0140480064
Title	Man And Superman
Author	George Bernard Shaw
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1982-08-26
Number of pages	272
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