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George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia In The Russian Manner On English Themes
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George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner
on English Themes
The author
George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in
Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an
undomestic mother. He developed an interest in liter ....
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....inspired by the plays
of the Norwegian playwright Hendrik Ibsen, whose social awareness and
nonconformism appealed more to Shaw than the fashionable hypocritical drama
of those days. In 1893 followed ‘The Philanderer', Mrs. Warren's
Profession (1893), and ‘Candida' (1895), all published together in a
collection of plays called ‘Plays Pleasant' and ‘Plays Unpleasant' in 1898,
the year Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend.
Shaw's second period started in 1898 and lasted until 1939. The
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