Plays Extravagant - Too Good to be True & Simpleton of the Unexpected Islands & The Millionairess
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
$22.99
Plays by Author - George Bernard Shaw
Doctor's Dilemma
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
The dilemma of the play is that of the, newly honoured doctor, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who has developed a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and ...
$19.99
Plays Political - The Apple Cart & On the Rocks & Geneva
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
$22.99
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty ... our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor' Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments de...
$16.99
Back to Methuselah
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
Written between 1918 and 1920, this work mirrors Shaw's experience of the war, which had enveloped him in a mood of despair Here, Shaw puts forward the concept of Creative Evolution, an invisible life force ...
$22.99
Three Plays for Puritans - The Devil's Disciple & Caesar and Cleopatra & Captain Brassbound's Conversion
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
'I am as fond of fine music and handsome buildings as Milton was, or Cromwell, or Bunyan; but if I found that they were becoming the instruments of a systematic idolatry of sensuousness, I would hold it good...
$18.99
John Bull's Other Island
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
$14.99
The Black Girl in Search of God
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel French Inc
7 Male 3 Female
This timely work stresses the independence of a woman seeking a deity who, by a misunderstanding of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, becomes female in her mind Challenging science and static dogma, it conc...
$10.99
Misalliance and Fascinating Foundling
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
$18.99
Our Theatre in the Nineties - Volumes 1 to 3
George Bernard Shaw
Used Copy
Shaw's weekly criticisms from The Saturday Review - January 1895 to May 1898 - rare - published Constable & Co Standard Edition reprinted 1948 (price is for all 3 Volumes)
$165
Plays Pleasant - Arms and the Man & Candida & The Man of Destiny & You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
'Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, figh...
$15.99
Our Theatre in the Nineties - Volumes 1-3
George Bernard Shaw
Used Copy
Standard work, rare - Shaw's weekly criticisms from The Saturday Review January 1895 - May 1898 pub Constable & Co, Standard Edition, reprinted 1948 - price is for all 3 Volumes
$195
The Shewing-Up of Bianco Posnet & Fanny's First Play
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
$15.99
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence Pygmalion both delighted and scanda...
$14.99
London Music in 1888-89
George Bernard Shaw
Used Copy
As Heard by Corno di Bassetto (later known as George Bernard Shaw) with further autobiographical particulars (see also Music in London (Vols 1-3)
$49.99
Dramatic Opinions and Essays - Volumes I & II
George Bernard Shaw
Used Copy
First Edition - pub 1907 - price is for both Volumes
$65
Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione prote...
$16.99
How To Become a Music Critic
George Bernard Shaw
Used Copy
$35
Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw
Penguin
This is Shaw's dramatic retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum...
$14.99
Too True to Be Good
George Bernard Shaw
Samuel French Inc
7 Male 3 Female
One of Shaw's most unpredictable comedies begins in a sick room, with a monstrous microbe, a pale patient, an overbearing mother, and a peculiar nurse Indeed, the nurse forthwith lets in her sweetie, a robb...
$10.99