George Bernard Shaw

«¿Dónde está Dios?». Ésa es la pregunta que una joven negra formula a la misionera que la ha convertido. «Él ha dicho "Busca y encontrarás"», le responde ésta. He aquí que la hermosa heroína de piel

Shaws expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaws Preface and "sequel."

Santa y heroína francesa, Juana de Arco fue quemada en la hoguera a los 19 años por herejía y brujería tras su participación decisiva en la Guerra de los Cien Años, que enfrentó a Francia e Inglaterra, guiada por voces de origen divino que escucho desde muy joven.Revolucionando el teatro de su epoca y rehuyendo con ironia el drama historico tradicional, George Bernard Shaw reconstruye en Santa Juana, su obra cumbre, las hazañas de una mujer rebelde, visionaria y esencialmente humana.Esta edicion recoge el prefacio integro que el autor escribio para la publicacion original.

Don Juan is more than just an infamous womaniser. For he has been the Don Juan of Bryons epic poem, the Don Giovanni of Mozarts opera and the main man in the play The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest. George Bernard Shaw added to Don Juans many identities with his play Man and Superman, which is a four-act play based on the Don Juan theme.It features John Tanner, an eloquent anarchist who is one of two men named in Mr. Whitefields will to care for his daughter Ann. The other, wealthy old Roebuck Ramsden, is rejected as guardian by Ann in favour of Tanner. The "political firebrand and confirmed bachelor" is not keen at all: he fears the guardianship will interfere with his commitment to anarchy.But when the two minds collide, the results are unexpected. While Ann gently leads Tanner to rethink his revolutionary ideas, the determined singleton finds himself falling for Ann, despite his close friend wanting to marry her.Will the rebel lose his cause? And who will prevail in the romance race? Man and Superman is perfect for fans of the play Private Lives by Oscar Wilde and Endgame by Samuel Beckett.

Tr.: Siegfried Trabitsch Language: German

"Plays Pleasant" is a collection of four plays by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1898: Arms and the Man; Candida; The Man of Destiny; and, You Never Can Tell.One of Bernard Shaws most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. Shaw mocks deluded idealism in Candida, when a young poet becomes infatuated with the wife of a Socialist preacher. The Man of Destiny is a witty war of words between Napoleon and a strange lady, while in the exuberant farce You Never Can Tell a divided family is reunited by chance. Although Shaw intended "Plays Pleasant" to be gentler comedies than those in their companion volume, "Plays Unpleasant", their prophetic satire is sharp and provocative.George Bernard Shaw is one of the worlds greatest literary figures.