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drama of ideas in relation to Bernard Shaw
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the drama of ideas in relation to Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw is a model to all struggling writers. Throughout his 30s, he wrote five novels – all of them failed. Yet, he did not let that deter him. It was not until 1856, at the age of 38, that his dramatic work made its professional debut. Even then, it took some time before his plays became popular.
Although he wrote mostly comedies, Shaw greatly admired the natural realism of Henrik Ibsen. Shaw felt that plays could be used to influence the general population. And since he was filled with ideas, George Bernard Shaw spent the rest of his life writing for the stage, creating over sixty plays. He won a Nobel Prize for Literature for his play The Apple Cart. Also, his cinematic adaptation of Pygmalion earned him an Academy Award.
Major Plays:
• Mrs. Warren’s Profession
• Man and Superman
• Major Barbara
• Saint Joan
• Pygmalion
• Heartbreak House
Shaw’s most financially successful play was Pygmalion, which was adapted into a popular 1938 motion picture, and then into a Broadway musical smash: My Fair Lady.
His plays touch upon a wide variety of social issues: government, oppression, history, war, marriage, women’s rights. It’s hard to say which among his plays are the most profound, but I do humbly offer an annotated list of my five favorite George Bernard Shaw plays.
In the 1880s, Shaw began his career as a professional art and music critic. Writing reviews of operas and symphonies eventually led to his new and more satisfying role as a theater critic. His reviews of London’s plays were witty, insightful, and sometimes painful to playwrights, directors, and actors who did not meet Shaw’s high standards.
Bernard Shaw is often thought of as the author of plays of ideas or even propaganda plays where the preaching and the laughing are inextricably mixed. However, the actual writing of the plays and the plays themselves are far more complex than either the popular impressions or Bernard Shaw’s explanations would suggest. he created a new type of drama
Although Shaw's plays focus on ideas and issues, they are vital and absorbing, enlivened by memorable characterizations, a brilliant command of language, and dazzling wit. Mrs. Warren's Profession (written 1893, produced 1902), a jibe at the Victorian attitude toward prostitution. Arms and the Man (1894), satirizing romantic attitudes toward love and war;
In 1897 The Devil's Disciple, a play on the American Revolution, was produced Caesar and Cleopatra (1899), notable for its realistic, humorous portraits of historical figures,
Pygmalion (1913), which satirizes the English class system through the story of a cockney girl's transformation into a lady at the hands of a speech professor. It has proved to be Shaw's most successful work—
Shaw took hypocrisy as one of his major themes. His best works combined Wilde’s wit and Ibsen’s seriousness of purpose, seeking always to reveal the bogus values of various segments of English society.
His best early plays treat contemporary social issues humorously through the satirical use of love plots and melodrama.
After the turn of the century, Shaw increasingly built his still rather conventional forms around a conflict of ideas. He frequently attached long prefaces to the printed version of his plays, which were often published before they had been performed; he also took to an extreme the modern tendency to print long narrative stage directions, by which the playwright tries to indicate how the play should be acted.
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