Three Plays Puritans Devils by Shaw George (25 results)

Condition: Good. Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of three plays of ideas, The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these plays, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms--Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story--to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil's Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines heroism in the character of the ageing Roman leader. And in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer's skilful manipulation of the truth.…

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Condition: Good. Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw's volume of three plays of ideas, The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these plays, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms--Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story--to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil's Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines heroism in the character of the ageing Roman leader. And in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer's skilful manipulation of the truth.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 352 pp. The cover edges are lightly rubbed; the spine is slightly creased; there is some underlining and marginalia in the text. The binding is tight and square.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. Minor shelf wear. A tan to the page edges. Contents clear. A nice copy.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Befriedigend. Penguin 1962 : George Bernard Shaw - tb CP-KFWO-2WME Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Still well bound. Interior in very nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. Bound in dark blue soft leather with gilt titling and decoration to spine and signature to front. Top edges gilt. Some scuffing to top of spine. One of the volumes in attached picture. Reduced combined postage on multiple orders - ask seller for a quote. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. xxviii, 293pp. Brown cloth boards. Spine lightly sunned. Lower front corners of upper board, front pastedown and endpapers and preliminary pages damp stained.

Later Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 346 p; 20 cm. Subjects: Caesar, Julius. Cleopatra Queen of Egypt -30 B.C.; Drama. English drama 20th century. Drama; Collections. Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950 English literature, 1900-1945 Selected plays. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783. Drama. Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C.; Drama. Egypt History 332-30 B.C.; Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First British Paperback Edition. "Major Barbara"'s date is 1945. These are 3 separately published volumes, all for the first time in paperback. "Major Barbara" has a special preface for this edition. Minor rubbing and wear; no writing in the margins, etc. Book. …

Later Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 346 p; 20 cm. Subjects: Caesar, Julius. Cleopatra Queen of Egypt -30 B.C.; Drama. English drama 20th century. Drama; Collections. Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950 English literature, 1900-1945 Selected plays. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783. Drama. Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C.; Drama. Egypt History 332-30 B.C.; Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Good. paperback, page edges browned, text clean and tight, covers rubbed, spine not creased, Good condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 346 pages. 185 grams. Book is in good lightly marked condition with light wear. 'Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin of Protestant stock, in 1856, and died at Ayot St Lawrence, Herts, in 1950. After a false start in nineteenth-century fashion as a novelist, he made a reputation as a journalist-critic of books, pictures, music, and the drama. Meanwhile he had plunged into the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties and come out as one of the leaders who made the Fabian Society famous, figuring prominently not only as a pamphleteer and platform orator, but as a serious philosopher, and publishing major essays on Ibsen and Wagner. He broke out in a new direction in 1892 as a playwright, although it was not until some twelve years later that the opposition he had always to irresistible force in theatre.' 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Plays; ISBN: 0140480021. ISBN/EAN: 9780140480023. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 002864.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A penguin first editionm - Fast Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

Hardback. 292pp Bound in rust red cloth with gilt lettering to spine Dust wrapper is NOT price clipped Age toning to spine Minor wear to extremities Binding tight Contents clean and bright Scarce with wrapper. book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Penguin PL2. Contains Devil's Disciple, Caesar & Cleopatra & Capt Brassbound's conversion. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Plays; Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: GHE0019763.

347 pp, notes on prelims and in margins, pages browned, wrapper corners creased, else good copy in limp wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 384 p. Copyright Edition. [COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS, TAUCHNITZ EDITION ; 4531].

Condition: Good. 2 volume set, part of The Plays by Bernard Shaw series, publiblished by Constable and Company, Ltd in London: 1) Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, 1927. 308 pages. 2) Saint Joan, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, 1929. 227 pages. Blue softcover "leatherette", with gilt lettering and ornamentation on cover and spine. Some wear and rubbing around tops and bottoms and spines. Slight yellowing to pages due to time. Includes a newspaper/magazine clipping dating to 1924. One volume contains inset vintage portrait of Shaw. Both volumes are inscribed in old faded ink on inside covers. Signed. …

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good Fo Age. No Jacket. First Edition Reissue. xxxix+308+4 pp ads, crown green cloth. unmarked text, 2 plates, a lengthy introductory essay with Shaw's usual clever moralising + 3 plays. Size: Crown. 2 Plates (illustrator). antiquarian.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 308 pp. Very Good, Green Cloth with sun-fading, minor stains, rubbing, & edge wear on boards; spine slanted; some shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; previous owners' signatures on FFEP. One of 2500 copies. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A Large Collection of George Bernard Shaw's works. 14 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Some first editions, all early editions. Includes:Cashel Byron's Profession; An Unsocial Socialist (1917); Saint Joan (1924); Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, Playlets of the War (1919);John Bull's Other Island (1907); Great Catherine, Playlets of the War (1919); Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant : (Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession) (1898); Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant: Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell.) (1898); The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1909); Three Plays for Puritans (The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion) (1900); Back to Methuselah (1921); Man and Superman (1903); Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (1916); The Apple Cart (1931).…