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The Devil's Disciple (play) 1897: 1901, rev. 1904 1898: The Perfect Wagnerite (music criticism) 1898, rev. 1907 1898: Caesar and Cleopatra (play) 1901: 1901, rev. 1930 1899: Captain Brassbound's Conversion (play) 1900: 1901 1900: Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) 1900 1900: Women as councillors (Fabian tract 93)‡ 1900 [3] 1901
Mencken was first introduced to the works of George Bernard Shaw by his friend Will Page, and by 1904, he had begun work on George Bernard Shaw: His Plays.He had initially intended to publish the book through Brentano's, which had published Shaw's work in the United States, but chose to go through John W. Luce after Brentano's declined.
Shaw's first play to bring him financial success was Arms and the Man (1894), a mock-Ruritanian comedy satirising conventions of love, military honour and class. [6] The press found the play overlong, and accused Shaw of mediocrity, [69] sneering at heroism and patriotism, [70] heartless cleverness, [71] and copying W. S. Gilbert's style.
The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. Arms and the Man was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called on to stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic ...
The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. The cleric is a Christian Socialist , allowing Shaw (who was a Fabian Socialist ) to weave political issues, current at the time, into the story.
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Wildwood Park for the Arts is a developing botanical garden and center for the arts located in western Little Rock, Arkansas's Chenal Valley.Its mission is to challenge the intellect, engage the imagination and celebrate the human spirit through encounters with nature and a full spectrum of the cultural arts: visual arts, performing, literary, horticulture, culinary and more.