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  • Man and Superman
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman is an ambitious philosophical comedy that turns courtship, marriage, politics, and human evolution into a dazzling contest of ideas. Published in 1903, the play combines Shaw’s characteristic wit with an expansive examination of freedom, desire, social convention, and the forces that shape human destiny.At the center of the play is John Ta...
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    18,35 €

  • Back to Methuselah
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw begins with a radical proposition: what if humanity’s greatest problem is that human beings simply do not live long enough to become wise?In Back to Methuselah, Shaw transforms that question into an extraordinary cycle of five plays spanning thousands of years. Beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and moving through Shaw’s own era into an increa...
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    20,51 €

  • Misalliance
    George Bernard Shaw
    An unexpected airplane crash, a house full of strong personalities, and a rapidly shifting tangle of attraction and argument set the stage for one of George Bernard Shaw’s most spirited comedies.At the country home of wealthy underwear manufacturer John Tarleton, an apparently ordinary summer afternoon is already complicated. Tarleton’s daughter Hypatia is engaged to the aristo...
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    12,55 €

  • Getting Married
    George Bernard Shaw
    A wedding is about to take place-but before anyone gets married, George Bernard Shaw wants to know whether marriage itself makes any sense.On the morning of Edith Bridgenorth’s wedding to Cecil Sykes, family and friends gather at the home of the Bishop of Chelsea. What should be a conventional celebration quickly becomes something far more complicated. Around the prospective br...
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    14,81 €

  • Arms and the Man
    George Bernard Shaw
    Love. War. Heroism. George Bernard Shaw turns them all upside down in this witty and enduring comedy of romantic ideals.When an exhausted Swiss soldier fleeing the battlefield climbs through the bedroom window of Raina Petkoff, he shatters nearly everything she believes about courage and war. Raina has been raised on stories of glorious battles, noble sacrifice, and heroic sold...
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    12,66 €

  • The Man of Destiny
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw turns the young Napoleon Bonaparte into the center of a sharp and entertaining battle of wits in The Man of Destiny.Set in Italy during Napoleon’s early military career, the play begins when an important packet of dispatches is stolen from a French lieutenant by a mysterious stranger. The missing papers soon become Napoleon’s concern, but recovering them pro...
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    10,80 €

  • Saint Joan
    George Bernard Shaw
    A young woman hears a call that will change the fate of a nation-and place her in conflict with the most powerful institutions of her age.Joan is a teenage peasant girl from rural France, yet she possesses an extraordinary certainty about her purpose. Convinced that divine voices have commanded her to help restore the rightful king and drive the English from French territory, s...
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    14,85 €

  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession
    George Bernard Shaw
    How much of a person’s life is shaped by choice-and how much by the opportunities society allows them to have?Vivie Warren has built her future on intelligence, education, and independence. Practical, disciplined, and determined to make her own way in the world, she believes success comes through hard work and personal integrity. But when she begins to uncover the truth behind ...
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    13,86 €

  • Pygmalion
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a brilliant comedy of language, class, identity, and the assumptions people make about one another.Eliza Doolittle is a poor London flower seller whose strong Cockney accent immediately marks her social position. Professor Henry Higgins, a brilliant but arrogant expert in phonetics, boasts that by changing the way Eliza speaks, he could pass h...
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    13,84 €

  • You Never Can Tell
    George Bernard Shaw
    You Never Can Tell is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most charming and playful comedies, a sparkling story of romance, family secrets, generational conflict, and the delightful unpredictability of human nature.Set in a seaside town, the play follows Mrs. Clandon and her three independent-minded children as they return to England after years abroad. Raised with modern ideas and li...
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    12,47 €

  • Candida
    George Bernard Shaw
    Candida is George Bernard Shaw’s sharp, witty, and quietly subversive comedy about love, marriage, idealism, and the illusions people create around the ones they adore.At the center of the play is Candida Morell, the intelligent and self-possessed wife of Reverend James Morell, a popular clergyman whose confidence in his work, his marriage, and his own moral strength seems unsh...
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    11,30 €

  • The Doctor’s Dilemma
    George Bernard Shaw
    When a doctor has the power to save only one life, how should he decide who deserves to live?Sir Colenso Ridgeon has developed a promising new treatment for tuberculosis, offering hope to patients once considered beyond saving. But his resources are limited, and he can accept only a small number of cases. When two very different men urgently need his care, Ridgeon is forced int...
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    14,81 €

  • The Apple Cart
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw turns politics into a brilliant battle of wits in The Apple Cart, a provocative comedy about monarchy, democracy, corporate power, and the question of who truly governs.In a future Britain, King Magnus finds himself confronted by Prime Minister Proteus and a cabinet determined to reduce the monarchy to little more than a ceremonial institution. Magnus, howev...
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    13,82 €

  • Fanny’s First Play
    George Bernard Shaw
    A young woman has written her first play. Her father has invited some of London’s leading theater critics to see it. There’s only one condition: they aren’t allowed to know who wrote it.That is the mischievous frame George Bernard Shaw constructs for Fanny’s First Play, a comedy that turns its attention not only toward respectable society but toward the theatrical world respons...
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    12,60 €

  • Major Barbara
    George Bernard Shaw
    Major Barbara Undershaft has devoted herself to saving souls and fighting poverty through her work with the Salvation Army. Her estranged father, Andrew Undershaft, has built an immense fortune manufacturing weapons. To Barbara, his wealth represents everything her faith should oppose. To Undershaft, poverty-not money-is the greatest evil, and good intentions mean little withou...
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    13,67 €

  • Major Barbara
    George Bernard Shaw
    Major Barbara is a three-act play that premiered at the Court Theatre in 1905, and was subsequently published in 1907. It portrays idealist Barbara Undershaft, a Major in the Salvation Army, and her encounter with her long-estranged father who has made his fortune as a 'dealer of death' in the munitions industry. Barbara doesn’t wish to be associated with her father’s ill-gotte...
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    24,15 €

  • Man and Superman
    George Bernard Shaw
    Man and SupermanGeorge Bernard ShawFollowing the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the ward of Jack Tanner and Roebuck Ramsden; Jack is a childhood friend, author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook, and descendant of Don Juan, while Roebuck Ramsden is a respectable friend of her father’s entirely opposed to Jack’s philosophy. Also in mourning are Octavius Robinson, who i...
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    23,44 €

  • Plays Unpleasant
    George Bernard Shaw
    'Plays Unpleasant' is a seminal collection of three early dramas by George Bernard Shaw that challenged the complacent social and moral values of late Victorian society. In 'The Widower’s House,' Shaw exposes the corruption of slum landlordism and the complicity of the middle class in urban poverty. 'The Philanderer' offers a satirical look at the 'New Woman' movement and the i...
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    25,18 €

  • Arms and the Man
    George Bernard Shaw
    'Arms and the Man' is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most enduring and witty comedies, serving as a biting satire on the romanticized notions of war and the conventions of love. Set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War, the play follows Raina Petkoff, a young Bulgarian woman whose idealistic views of heroism are challenged when she shelters a pragmatic Swiss mercenary, Captain Blu...
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    17,78 €

  • Androcles and the Lion
    George Bernard Shaw
    'Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion' brings together three distinct yet equally provocative plays by the legendary dramatist George Bernard Shaw. Each work showcases Shaw’s signature wit, sharp social commentary, and mastery of the stage.'Androcles and the Lion' reimagines the classic fable within the context of the Roman Empire, exploring the tension between faith an...
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    26,08 €

  • The Plays of Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw
    'The Plays of Bernard Shaw. Translations and Tomfooleries' is a captivating collection of George Bernard Shaw’s shorter theatrical works, showcasing the wit, social commentary, and playful experimentation of one of the 20th century’s greatest dramatists. This volume brings together a diverse array of pieces, ranging from formal adaptations to whimsical sketches that Shaw himsel...
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    23,05 €

  • Man and Superman
    George Bernard Shaw
    'Man and Superman. A Comedy and a Philosophy' is one of George Bernard Shaw’s most ambitious and intellectually rigorous works, blending sharp-witted social satire with a profound exploration of human evolution. The drama follows the intellectual and romantic tug-of-war between Jack Tanner, a wealthy revolutionary, and Ann Whitefield, a woman who embodies the relentless power o...
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    25,10 €

  • Saint Joan
    George Bernard Shaw
    'Saint Joan Major Barbara Androcles and the Lion' is a significant collection of three essential plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright George Bernard Shaw. This volume brings together diverse works that highlight Shaw’s intellectual depth, wit, and his unique ability to challenge societal norms through the medium of drama.The collection opens with 'Saint Joan', a powerful...
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    29,88 €

  • Ceasar and Cleopatra
    George Bernard Shaw / William Shakespeare
    'Caesar and Cleopatra' and 'Antony and Cleopatra' presents a compelling pairing of two seminal dramatic works that explore the intersection of Roman power and Egyptian sovereignty. This collection brings together George Bernard Shaw’s witty and philosophical comedy alongside William Shakespeare’s grand, poetic tragedy, offering a multifaceted look at the legendary Queen of the ...
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    25,21 €

  • The Quintessence of Ibsenism
    George Bernard Shaw
    'The Quintessence of Ibsenism' is a seminal work of literary and dramatic criticism by the renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw. In this insightful volume, Shaw explores the profound impact of Henrik Ibsen’s plays on modern theater and social thought. Rather than providing a mere biographical account, Shaw delves into the core themes of Ibsen’s work, articulating how the Nor...
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    23,08 €

  • John Bull’s Other Island (Esprios Classics)
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal schooling, he educated himself by independent study in the reading room of the British Museum; he also began his career there by writing novels for which he could not find a publisher. His first succ...
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    20,69 €

  • Man and Superman (Esprios Classics)
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal schooling, he educated himself by independent study in the reading room of the British Museum; he also began his career there by writing novels for which he could not find a publisher. His first succ...
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    23,68 €

  • The Perfect Wagnerite (Esprios Classics)
    George Bernard Shaw
    The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical commentary on Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. Shaw offered it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who 'were unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan. Shaw interprets th...
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    19,90 €

  • Candida (Esprios Classics)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida’s affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from h...
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    18,57 €

  • Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Esprios Classics)
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal schooling, he educated himself by independent study in the reading room of the British Museum; he also began his career there by writing novels for which he could not find a publisher. His first succ...
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    19,86 €


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