Androcles and the Lion
Autor Dan Laurence, George Bernard Shawen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 oct 1987
Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140450132
ISBN-10: 0140450130
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140450130
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
BERNARD
SHAW
was
born
in
Dublin
in
1856.
After
his
arrival
in
London
in
1876
he
became
an
active
Socialist
and
a
brilliant
platform
speaker.
He
wrote
on
many
social
aspects
of
the
day:
onCommon
Sense
about
the
War(1914),How
to
Settle
the
Irish
Question(1917)
andThe
Intelligent
Woman’s
Guide
to
Socialism
and
Capitalism(1928).
He
undertook
his
own
education
at
the
British
Museum
and
consequently
became
keenly
interested
in
cultural
subjects.
Thus
his
prolific
output
included
music,
art
and
theatre
reviews,
which
were
collected
into
several
volumes
such
asMusic
in
London
1890–1894(3
vols,
1931);Pen
Portraits
and
Reviews(1931);
andOur
Theatres
in
the
Nineties(3
vols,
1931).
He
also
wrote
five
novels
and
some
shorter
fiction,
includingThe
Black
Girl
in
Search
of
God
and
Some
Lesser
TalesandCashel
Byron’s
Profession,
both
published
in
Penguin’s
Bernard
Shaw
Library.
He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: ‘Plays Pleasant’; ‘Plays Unpleasant’; comedies; chronicle-plays; ‘metabiological Pentateuch’ (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and ‘political extravaganzas’. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.
He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: ‘Plays Pleasant’; ‘Plays Unpleasant’; comedies; chronicle-plays; ‘metabiological Pentateuch’ (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays); and ‘political extravaganzas’. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.