Dan H. Laurence Knihy

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Im Vorwort zu seiner Komödie schreibt Bernard Shaw: »Es ist einem Engländer unmöglich, den Mund aufzumachen, ohne sich den Hass oder die Verachtung irgendeines anderen Engländers zuzuziehen. Deutsch und Spanisch sind Fremden zugänglich, Englisch ist nicht einmal Engländern zugänglich.« Die gesellschaftliche Stellung eines Menschen sei eine Funktion seiner Sprache, glaubt Professor Henry Higgins und will es beweisen, indem er einer Londoner Blumenverkäuferin Sprachunterricht erteilt und sie nach Abschluss der Dressur erfolgreich als Herzogin ausgibt ... Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch

In each of these fifteen short plays, Bernard Shaw displays an immense skill in achieving an immediate dramatic impact - a skill that he recognized as being greatly dependent on the talent of the actors and actresses with whom he worked. Though some of the sketches are slight, others offer short but intense scrutinies of the morality and sensibility of the age. Together they demonstrate a range of moods - comedy, satire, farce and social protest - through which the more familiar Shavian themes emerge, among them the inadequacies of the contemporary government and the "inflated" reputation enjoyed by Shakespeare.

'A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth' After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the joint ward of two men: the respectable Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner, author of 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. Believing marriage would prevent him from achieving his higher intellectual and political ambitions, Tanner is horrified to discover that Ann intends to marry him, and flees to Spain with the determined young woman in hot pursuit. The chase even leads them to the underworld, where the characters' alter egos discuss questions of human nature and philosophy in a lively debate in a scene often performed separately as 'Don Juan in Hell'. In Man and Superman, Shaw combined seriousness with comedy to create a satirical and buoyant exposé of the eternal struggle between the sexes. This is the definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. This volume includes Shaw's Preface of 1903 and his appendix, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook', the cast list from the first production of Man and Superman and a list of his principal works.

New Viking, 1985. First American Edition. Octavo, 989 pp. Red cloth, gilt spine imprinting, photopictorial jacket. About Near Fine; nice copy. Book shows unidentifiable stain at bottom page edges (probably not a remainder); jacket shows small area of adhesive stain from a removed sticker at top right of cover, has very small-scale edge curling, small scrapes on rear panel; Very Good. Volume three (only) of Laurence's scholarly four-volume aggregation of "Shavian" correspondence, published over more than twenty years. L-46n

Two plays deal with the trial of an accused horse thief, and marriage, parenthood, women's rights, and middle class morality