Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of three plays of ideas, The Devil's Disciple , Caesar and Cleopatra , and Captain Brassbound's Conversion --part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Shaw believed that theatre audiences of...
Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s 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. In these three plays of...
Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s 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. In these three plays of...