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Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by working as a Major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day. Is the Army right to accept money that has been obtained by 'Death and Destruction'? Barbara is forced to question her philanthropic motives, and what she discovers tells her something new about the world and its ways.
Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is also one of Shaw's most powerful and forward-looking plays. As Margery Morgan says, while Shaw was responding to 'a material and cultural situation that is now part of history', his work still has relevance 'in a period when new technologies drive the globalization of trade and the migration of populations ... and ancient forms of brutality and carnage have re-appeared.'
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Book Description Condition: New. Edited by Elizabeth T. Forter, this edition of Major Barbara for performance and study includes Shaw's complete "Preface. " The text follows Shaw's spelling and punctuation. It also includes a highly regarded twenty-four page introduction, a list of the principal dates in the life of Bernard Shaw, and a selected bibliography. Editor(s): Forter, Elizabeth T. Series: Crofts Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 187 x 126. Weight in Grams: 184. . 1985. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780882950884
Book Description Condition: New. Edited by Elizabeth T. Forter, this edition of Major Barbara for performance and study includes Shaw's complete "Preface. " The text follows Shaw's spelling and punctuation. It also includes a highly regarded twenty-four page introduction, a list of the principal dates in the life of Bernard Shaw, and a selected bibliography. Editor(s): Forter, Elizabeth T. Series: Crofts Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 187 x 126. Weight in Grams: 184. . 1985. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780882950884