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Epicoene Or, The Silent WomanEpicoene; Or, The Silent Woman THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such...
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Count JulianCount JulianThe daughter of Count Julian is usually called Florindaa fictitious appellation, unsuitable to the person and to the period. Never was one devised more incompatible with the appearance of truth, or more fatal to the illusions of sympathy. The city of Covilla, it...
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Hassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five actsHassan : the story of Hassan of Bagdad, and how he came to make the golden journey to Samarkand : a play in five actsThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written...
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PygmalionPygmalion 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 teach their children to speak it. They spell it so...
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Major BarbaraMajor Barbara 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. A person sitting on it [it is...
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The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five ActsThe Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts [The court-room in the palace at Fiori, extremely crowded with restless and expectant people. The crowd is arranged on both sides of the stage, in such a way that a broad avenue is left...
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The Inspector-GeneralThe Inspector-General The Inspector-General is a national institution. To place a purely literary valuation upon it and call it the greatest of Russian comedies would not convey the significance of its position either in Russian literature or in Russian life itself. There is no...
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Every Man in His HumourEvery Man in His Humour THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such...
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The Devil's DiscipleThe Devil's Disciple At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the...
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Arms and the ManArms and the Man To the irreverentand which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward Bernard Shaw. He so obviously disregards all the canons and unities and other things...
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John Bull's Other IslandJohn Bull's Other Island Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr Lawrence Doyle and Mr Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most...
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How He Lied to Her HusbandHow He Lied to Her Husband Like many other works of mine, this playlet is a piece d'occasion. In 1905 it happened that Mr Arnold Daly, who was then playing the part of Napoleon in The Man of Destiny in New York, found that...
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Heartbreak HouseHeartbreak House Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few...
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The Admirable CrichtonThe Admirable Crichton A moment before the curtain rises, the Hon. Ernest Woolley drives up to the door of Loam House in Mayfair. There is a happy smile on his pleasant, insignificant face, and this presumably means that he is thinking of himself. He...
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Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) Exception has been taken to the title of this seeming tomfoolery on the ground that the Catherine it represents is not Great Catherine, but the Catherine whose gallantries provide some of the lightest pages of modern history. Great...
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Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life FarceAugustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce I wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices which Augustus secured for me in January, 1917. I had been invited to visit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief: an invitation which was,...
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The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical ComediettaThe Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta I must remind the reader that this playlet was written when its principal character, far from being a fallen foe and virtually a prisoner in our victorious hands, was still the Caesar whose legions we were...
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Annajanska, the Bolshevik EmpressAnnajanska, the Bolshevik Empress ANNAJANSKA is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its "turns" little plays called sketches, to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favorite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely...
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O'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting PamphletO'Flaherty V.C.: A Recruiting Pamphlet It may surprise some people to learn that in 1915 this little play was a recruiting poster in disguise. The British officer seldom likes Irish soldiers; but he always tries to have a certain proportion of them in his...
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Captain Brassbound's ConversionCaptain Brassbound's Conversion On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually...
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