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rows · Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant: (Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Three Plays For Puritans: The Devils Disciple; Caesar And Cleopatra; Captain Brassbounds Conversion (The Shaw library) by Laurence, Dan and Shaw, George Bernard and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Three Plays for Puritans: Being the Third Volume of his Collected Plays (The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brasshound's Conversion) by SHAW, Bernard Seller.

In these three plays of ideas, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil's Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines. Bernard Shaw in The following is a list of works by George Bernard Shaw The first section shows works in chronological sequence as written, the second tabulates these works by genre. In addition to the works listed here, Shaw produced a large quantity of journalism and criticism, particularly in his role as a music and theatre critic. Buy Three Plays for Puritans (Bernard Shaw Library) by Shaw, George Bernard, Laurence, Dan, Billington, Michael (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Three Plays for Puritans: Being the Third Volume of his Collected Plays (The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brasshound's Conversion) by SHAW, Bernard Seller. Three Plays for Puritans. by. George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence (Editor), Michael Billington (Introduction) · Rating details · ratings · 11 reviews. Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. Three Plays for Puritans is a collection of plays by George Bernard Shaw published in It consists of The Devil's Disciple (), Caesar and Cleopatra () and Captain Brassbound's Conversion (), with a long preface by Shaw in three parts in which he expounds many of his thoughts on drama. The title later appeared in a Penguin Classics edition.