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Works of G. B. Shaw: Critical Commentary

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shaw, George Bernard

Shaw, George Bernard
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

Saint Joan:

When Saint Joan was produced in 1923, George Bernard Shaw was sixty-seven
years of age. He had been a world-famous writer for many years. Just before
this, Shaw had offered to the world Heartbreak House, a symbolic commentary on
Europe before World War I, and Back to Methuselah, an incredibly long (five
evenings' playing time) philosophical discussion of the history and future of
the human race. There was some tendency on the part of playgoers and critics
to look upon Shaw as an important literary figure who was ...

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