Three Plays for Puritans
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Egypt |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Egypt |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Charles Kingsley |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2021-01-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 5041628653 |
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780484472111 |
Excerpt from Three Plays for Puritans: Being the Third Volume of His Collected Plays This is all very well but the trumpet is an instrument that grows on one and sometimes my blasts have been so strident that even those who are most annoyed by them have mistaken the novelty of my shamelessness for novelty in my plays and opinions. Take, for instance, the first play in this volume, entitled The Devil's Disciple. It does not contain a single even passably novel incident. Every old patron of the Adelphi pit would, were he not beglamored in a way presently to be explained, recognize the reading of the will, the oppressed orphan finding a protector, the arrest, the heroic sacrifice, the court martial, the scaffold, the reprieve at the last moment, as he recognizes beefsteak pudding on the bill of fare at his restaurant. Yet when the play was produced in 1897 in New York by Mr Richard Mansfield, with a success that proves either that the melo drama was built on very safe old lines, or that the American public is composed exclusively of men of genius, the critics, though one said one thing and another another as to the play's merits, yet all agreed that it was novel - original, as they put it - to the verge of audacious eccentricity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Colin Rice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Anglo-Saxon language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781330041253 |
Excerpt from Three Plays for Puritans: Being the Third Volume of His Collected Plays Since I gave my Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant, to the world two years ago, many things have happened to me. I had then just entered on the fourth year of my activity as a critic of the London theatres. They very nearly killed me. I had survived seven years of London's music, four or five years of London's pictures, and about as much of its current literature, wrestling critically with them with all my force and skill. After that, the criticism of the theatre came to me as a huge relief in point of bodily exertion. The difference between the leisure of a Persian cat and the labor of a cockney cab horse is not greater than the difference between the official weekly or fortnightly playgoings of the theatre critic and the restless daily rushing to and fro of the music critic, from the stroke of three in the afternoon, when the concerts begin, to the stroke of twelve at night, when the opera ends. The pictures were nearly as bad. An Alpinist once, noticing the massive soles of my boots, asked me whether I climbed mountains. No, I replied: these boots are for the hard floors of the London galleries. Yet I once dealt with music and pictures together in the spare time of an active young revolutionist, and wrote plays and books and other toilsome things into the bargain. But the theatre struck me down like the veriest weakling. I sank under it like a baby fed on starch. My very bones began to perish, so that I had to get them planed and gouged by accomplished surgeons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Christopher Collier |
Publisher | : Blackstone Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1620644959 |
History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. In Pilgrims and Puritans, the authors begin in the year 1620 in England and end in New England in the year 1676. The book recounts the religious, political, and social history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its influence on our lives today. The narrative follows various groups of settlers from their departure from England through arrival in the New World and their often violent conflicts with the native peoples of the Americas. The authors examine a number of issues that arose in the new society that was founded and the rise and fall of the "city on a hill."