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The true radical programme (Fabian tract 6: Shaw a contributor)‡ 1887 [3] 1887–88: An Unfinished Novel (novel fragment) 1958 1889: Fabian Essays in Socialism (ed. Shaw with 2 Shaw essays) 1889; rev. 1908, 1931, 1948 1890: What socialism is (Fabian tract 13)‡ 1890 [3] 1890 "Ibsen" (Lecture before the Fabian Society) 1970 1891
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by Bernard Shaw during the First World War, published in 1919 and first performed in November 1920 at the Garrick Theatre, New York, followed by a West End production the following year. The play reflects Shaw's disillusion with post-war Britain.
The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Shaw describes Henry Apjohn as "a very beautiful youth, moving as in a dream, walking as on air," while Aurora Bompas has "an air of being a young and beautiful woman but as a matter of hard fact, she is, dress and pretensions apart, a very ordinary South Kensington female of about 37, hopelessly ...
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.
Michael John Lewis (born 11 January 1939 in Aberystwyth) is a Welsh-born composer of film, theatre, television, and choral music. He studied harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After a brief teaching career in North London he became a full time composer at the age of 24.
In Shaw's words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it." [ 1 ] The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships.
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