«¿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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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. Ele e o...

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...

Works by Adolf Hitler: My Struggle (Mein Kampf), Secon Book, Speeches and radio addresses. Works about Adolf Hitler: Interrogation of Frau Paula Wolff (Frl. Paula Hitler), The Adolf Hitler Trial before...

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...

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. It was first published with Captain...

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - 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. In ancient Greek mythology,...

The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw - The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American...

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...

Mr. Whitefield has recently died, and his will indicates that his daughter Ann should be left in the care of two men, Roebuck Ramsden and Jack Tanner. Ramsden, a venerable old man, distrusts John Tanner,...

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 reflects...

Plays Pleasant George Bernard Shaw - "Plays Pleasant" is a collection of four plays by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1898: Arms and the Man; Candida; The Man of Destiny; and, You Never Can Tell....

Do you like 'Pretty Woman', with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere? Do you love 'Maid in Manhattan', starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes? And how about little orphan 'Annie'? Well, 'Pygmalion' is the...

Don Juan is more than just an infamous womaniser. For he has been the 'Don Juan' of Bryon's epic poem, the 'Don Giovanni' of Mozart's opera and the main man in the play 'The Trickster of Seville and the...

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...