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بنات شنقول عن الريليجن لو تسألنا نقارن بين المسرحيتين؟

[Lunatic]

نورا ماعندها clue عن الدين الا من ابوها وزوجها ... وهذا دليل على انهم عاملوها كـ Doll وتحكموا حتى بمعرفتها للدين .
Waiting for Godot من خصائص الـ Theater of absurd ان الشخصيات تؤمن او لا تؤمن بالله .. يعني ماهي متأكده من شي .. فاسترقون وفلادمير مش متأكدين ان Christ هو خلاصهم .. و المسيح متمثل بقدوت .. يعني مش متأكدين ان قدوت بيخلصهم


وانا بسأل ... ايش هي مسرحيات برنارد شو الي هي مثال لـ problem play ?

[ms.2012]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة Lunatic

نورا ماعندها clue عن الدين الا من ابوها وزوجها ... وهذا دليل على انهم عاملوها كـ Doll وتحكموا حتى بمعرفتها للدين .
Waiting for Godot من خصائص الـ Theater of absurd ان الشخصيات تؤمن او لا تؤمن بالله .. يعني ماهي متأكده من شي .. فاسترقون وفلادمير مش متأكدين ان Christ هو خلاصهم .. و المسيح متمثل بقدوت .. يعني مش متأكدين ان قدوت بيخلصهم


وانا بسأل ... ايش هي مسرحيات برنارد شو الي هي مثال لـ problem play ?

Major Plays:
• Mrs. Warren’s Profession
• Man and Superman
• Major Barbara
• Saint Joan
• Pygmalion
• Heartbreak House

[غرك غلاك]

بنات ممكن اجابة topic

drama of ideas in relation to Bernard Shaw

[whispers]

George Bernard Shaw

In England, George Bernard Shaw who is an Irish-born playwright and critic brought the problem play to its intellectual peak, both with his plays and with their long and witty prefaces. He wrote frankly and satirically on political and social topics such as class, war, feminism, and the Salvation Army.

Ibsen had a profound effect on the drama both of his own time and in the twentieth century. His plays stimulated the avant-garde theater in Germany and France, and only the plays of George Bernard Shaw had a greater impact in England
His best early plays treat contemporary social issues humorously through the satirical use of love plots and melodrama. Although their content challenges the ruling ideologies of the late Victorian period, their form is often, as Shaw put it, “pleasant.”

George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" as a problem play.

Is Candida a problem play?
yes, 'Candida' is a 'Problem Play'. At its centre lies the problem of love and marriage. Candida, the clergyman Morell's middle-aged and long-married wife, and the 18-year-old poet Eugene Marchbanks grow a relationship ('calf-love'?) between them. The socialist priest and an acclaimed public orator James Mavor Morell gets scared about the relationship because he absolutely depends on Candida in all domestic needs, and if his wife chooses to leave her husband for the sake of her young lover, the outcome would be disastrous. However, at the end, Candida chooses 'the weaker of the two' i.e. Morell. It does not mean that Candida no longer loves the poet; but the poet does not require the services of a devoted wife which Morell desperately requires to promote his public image of an orator and activist. Marchbanks goes out into the dark night with the 'mystery in the poet's heart'.

Candida's choice reflects Shaw's insistence on the importance of the practical wisdom. Candida, unlike Nora, is a thoroughly practical minded woman. Though she is not crude like Burgess, she inherits some of her father's utilitarian philosophy. Her final choice of staying with Morell, is not decided by her love for him but the financial and social security of a married life that she is afraid of risking.

Shaw's ideas about women play with a vital role in Candida. According to Shaw, a woman is primarily a manifestation of Life Force whose primary function is the biological continuity of the race. Consequently Shaw believes that while choosing a mate, a woman would select the one who would be the best father fro her offsprings, eliminating others. He also deals with the idea of women's emancipation in Candida from an entirely practical point of view. By asserting her will on the two men, Candida converts the patriarchal pattern of the Victorian household setup into a matriarchal one.

As a Play of Ideas, Candida is not a pleasant one, the cruel rejection of Marchbanks and the heavy burden of 'mystery' in his soul with which he departs, leaves a sense of bitterness in the minds of the audience. However, the play has a conventional sense of pleasantness in not allowing the institution of marriage to be seriously challenged by love.

[ms.2012]

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بنات ممكن اجابة topic

drama of ideas in relation to Bernard Shaw

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.

[ms.2012]

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تهقون هذا برنارد مهم ... ما أذكر سميره طرته

[Lunatic]

مها اكدت على ان نذكره بالـ problem play

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ms.2012 & whispers

الله يوفقكم ويسهل عليكم

[طيرالحب]

بنات well-made play
نفسس drama of idea