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Overview

Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by working as a Major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day. is the Army right to accept money that has been obtained by 'Death and Destruction'? Barbara is forced to examine her moral assumptions. Is she tricked into the attempt to unite spiritual goodness with material power?

Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is also one of Shaw's most powerful and forward-looking plays. As Margery Morgan says, while Shaw was responding to 'a material and cultural situation that is now part of history', his work still has relevance 'in a period when new technologies drive the globalization of trade and the migration of populations ... and ancient forms of brutality and carnage have reappeared.'

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The classic Shaw play is interpreted by this extremely talented cast of 12 performers, which mounts a rousing, unforgettable show complete with incredibly well-produced and realistic sound effects that capture everything from doors creaking open, bustling crowds on city streets and impatient horses ready to trot. Roger Rees as the elder Undershaft and Kirsten Potter as his daughter Barbara are standouts. The two play off each another very well and offer some truly memorable arguments that are the cornerstone of the story. The engaging cast sweeps listeners off to the cobblestone streets of old England. (June)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140437904
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/1/2001
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 535,591
  • Lexile: NPL (what's this?)
  • Series: Penguin Classics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.24 (w) x 7.78 (h) x 0.45 (d)

Meet the Author

Editor Nicholas Grene is a Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. His books include Bernard Shaw: a Critical View, Shaw, Lady Gregory and the Abbey Theatre (co-edited with Dan H. Laurence), and The Politics of Irish Drama.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Preface to Major Barbara
First Aid to Critics 9
The Gospel of St Andrew Undershaft 15
The Salvation Army 24
Barbara's Return to the Colors 27
Weaknesses of the Salvation Army 30
Christianity and Anarchism 39
Sane Conclusions 43
Major Barbara 51
Principal Works of Bernard Shaw 155

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 13, 2007

    Money and Morality, Salvation and Society: The Qualms of Major Barbara

    To be perfectly candid, I originally chose this book in a panic because of its slight thickness, which I hoped would aid me in reading it in the limited time given to read and review it. This was a poor basis for making a decision on my part, but it only intensified my delight in the monumental and entertaining story that I found concisely portrayed in its relatively few pages, Through the power of dialect and sparse but descriptive stage directions, Shaw manages to eloquently contain multiple contradicting views on morality, spirituality, classes, wealth, and other grand ideals in the form of multiple intriguing characters. Major Barbara takes place in England in 1906, and not very much actually happens in the course of the book. This may frustrate readers bent on receiving exciting and definitive action. I myself can understand how a book can contain excellent imagery, deep symbolism, and profound thoughts on abstract concepts, but still short of absorbing without an engaging plot to serve as a medium for these great accomplishments. With a lack of extreme action, it seems strange that this play is not a heavy and boring philosophical chore to read. What seems even stranger is the idea that it was written as a play, and as all plays, it is to be most appreciated on the stage its true form is not as printed words, but as actual actions and conversations carried out by the closest things to living tangible characters: actors. This seems strange because one could conceive that a lack of much action driving the plot would be even more impenetrable and wearisome as a live (lack of) action play than in a book, which you can at least go back and read over if something escapes you. Although this would be a logical assumption, this was not the case. To me, the play was far from dull and was even engaging. The potential reason for this would lie not in the story⿿s action but in its characters. Shaw has masterfully created a group of strange and intriguing people out of his descriptions and highly personified dialogue. There is Lady Britomart, the high society matriarch who sticks strongly to her simple yet limited principles and dominates everyone⿿s affairs while getting shocked and offended at the very idea that she is doing so. There is Andrew Undershaft, an indifferent yet amiable war business tycoon who is proud of his materialism and realism to the point of unashamed immorality, even proclaiming that being a millionaire is his religion. There are their children: Stephen, Sarah, and Barbara, who differ from each other immensely. Stephen is a well-mannered, uptight young man struggling politely for independence from his unwittingly dominating mother, but suffers from a severe limitation in perceiving and thinking about things that is similar to his mother. Sarah is a pretty, slender young woman, but is a bored and nondescript personage created by high society. Major Barbara is a near saint, working for the Salvation Army and unshakable in her faith of God and determination to save peoples⿿ souls. However, she suffers from an idealism that, while different from her mother⿿s, is of its same level of one-sidedness, and also inherits some of her mother⿿s disliked meddling and domination. The sweethearts of Sarah and Barbara are also interesting in their contrast. Sarah⿿s fiancé is a man named Charles Lomax, a friendly dandy known for saying ⿿chap,⿠or ⿿Oh, I say ⿠and occasionally offering simple ideas which are largely derided by Lady Britomart. Barbara⿿s love interest is a gentle, cordial, yet intellectually mischievous Greek scholar named Adolphus Cuisins, a sort of agnostic, s gentle cynic, and a casual philosopher. With the natural conflicts between these persons, a battle of the hearts, minds, and souls is imminent. There are other minor characters and scene settings that add to the book. The most important minor characters are those of the various poor people and workers at th

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