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George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner
on English Themes
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 literature, ....
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.... anti-war
pamphlet Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the Woman's guide to
Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928.
Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature,
art and music for a number of important magazines. During this period he
started writing his first play, Widowers' Houses', 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 day ....
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