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"An examination of how Bernard Shaw's drama Major Barbara parallels Plato's The Republic and Euripides's Bacchae and modernizes classical themes"--
"Ever since its 1905 premiere on the London stage, Bernard Shaw's controversial drama Major Barbara has proved puzzling to audiences and critics alike. More than a century later there is still wide critical disagreement about the play's meaning and the ideas it engenders. Sidney…
People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. However, as eminent Shaw scholar Stanley Weintraub reveals in this collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and delic…