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.'
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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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780140437904 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 05/01/2001 |
Series: | Penguin Classics Series |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 176 |
Sales rank: | 783,889 |
Product dimensions: | 5.13(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.44(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |