Santa y heroína francesa, Juana de Arco fue quemada en la hoguera a los 19 años por herejía y brujería tras su participación decisiva en la Guerra de los Cien Años, que enfrentó a Francia e Inglaterra,...

«¿Dónde está Dios?» Ésa es la pregunta que una joven negra formula a la misionera que la ha convertido. «Él ha dicho “Busca y encontrarás”», le responde ésta. He aquí que la hermosa heroína de piel satinada,...

Pygmalion, una de las obras más conocidas de George Bernard Shaw, fue un gran éxito en los escenarios de Londres y Nueva York, una película entretenida y un gran éxito con su versión musical, My Fair...

"Pigmalión" satiriza el sistema de clases inglés y la artificiosidad con el que este dividía a las personas, a la vez que celebra el individualismo que es capaz de romper con esas cadenas, personificado...

It will repay those who seek analogies in literature to compare Shaw with Cervantes. After a life of heroic endeavor, disappointment, slavery, and poverty, the author of "Don Quixote" gave the world a...

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises...

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can...

Though Pygmalion, legendary figure of Cyprus, is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor...

George Bernard Shaw, nascido na Irlanda em 1856, foi um dramaturgo, romancista, contista, ensaísta e jornalista irlandês. Autor de comédias satíricas de espírito irreverente e inconformista, Bernard Shaw.foi...

George Bernard Shaw, nascido na Irlanda em 1856, foi um dramaturgo, romancista, contista, ensaísta e jornalista irlandês.  Autor de comédias satíricas de espírito irreverente e inconformista. Ele e o...

Bernard Shaw's 'Pen Portraits and Reviews' offers readers a captivating collection of essays that provide insightful commentary on prominent figures of the time, ranging from authors to politicians. Shaw's...

Mrs. Warren's Profession Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902.Act I takes place in the countryside town of Haslemere,...

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy Bernard Shaw - Shaw began writing Man and Superman in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance....

Caesar and Cleopatra Bernard Shaw - Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra....

Arms and the Man Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing").The...

Though Pygmalion, legendary figure of Cyprus, is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor...

Heartbreak House Bernard Shaw - 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...

Major 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...

Candida Bernard Shaw - Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell,...

Hormis Pygmalion, dans sa version cinématographique My Fair Lady, l’œuvre de Bernard Shaw est aujourd’hui presque complètement inconnue du public français. Parmi les mélomanes, rares sont ceux qui ont...

This Collected Works contains: An Unsocial Socialist Androcles and the Lion Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress Arms and the Man Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological...

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Arms and the man I sing"). The play was first produced on...

The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (and Some Lesser Tales)is a book of short stories written by George Bernard Shaw. The title story is a satirical allegory relating the experiences...

In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette training,...

It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather....

Il "Manuale del rivoluzionario" fa parte della produzione saggistica meno nota al grande pubblico di George Bernard Shaw. In una corrosiva e provocatoria riscrittura del superuomo nietzcheano, Shaw demolisce...

With his inimitable wit and sparkle, George Bernard Shaw brings us the character of Owen Jack, a salty non-conformist composer said to have been suggested by Beethoven. The relations between Jack and...

A Professor of Phonetics. As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not...

It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather....

Shaw's play "Saint Joan" is a hommage to 15th-century French military figure Joan of Arc. It was premiered in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, and reflects Shaw's...