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One of George Bernard Shaw's most performed and studied plays, "Arms and the Man" is a classic example of Shaw's comedic wit. First produced in 1894, the play is set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war and tells the story of Raina Petkoff, a young Bulgarian woman, who is engaged to Sergius, a soldier away at war whom she idolizes. While both her father and fiancé are away fighting, Raina, at home with her mother, has a very innocent and romantic idea...
2) Candida
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"Candida" is the story of its title character, a woman who is married to the Reverend Morell. Candida is a woman of many talents and her husband has his wife to thank for much of his success. When a young man by the name of Marchbanks professes his love for Candida, Morell must reexamine his relationship with his wife and ultimately discovers a side to her that he never knew existed. "Candida" is a play written during a time of great empowerment of...
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The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans together with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and Caesar and Cleopatra. Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary...
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First staged in 1906, "The Doctor's Dilemma" is a play that revolves around a community of doctors, most specializing, unbeknownst to them, in different types of expensive, fraudulent treatments. Dr. Ridgeon, who has actually discovered a vaccine for tuberculosis, is conflicted about administering his limited remedy, for the husband of a woman he is in love with can pay, but his kind yet poverty-stricken colleague Dr. Blenkinsop cannot. Shaw's drama...
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First performed in 1905 and published in 1907, "Major Barbara" is a dramatic play by the famed Irish playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw. The story centers around its title character who, as an officer in the Salvation Army, becomes disenchanted by the increasing social problems that she sees and the willingness of her organization to accept money from armament manufacturers. Barbara is disillusioned about the good work the Salvation Army...
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Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1894, and first performed in London in 1902. The title refers to prostitution. The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs. Warren, a former prostitute and current brothel owner, is described as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman." Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman who just graduated...
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La Chartreuse de Parme est un roman historique écrit par Stendhal en 1839. Il raconte l'histoire de Fabrice del Dongo, un jeune noble italien qui vit pendant les révolutions napoléoniennes. Il est déterminé à faire carrière dans l'armée et à vivre des aventures passionnantes, mais il est confronté à des obstacles tels que la politique, la guerre et l'amour. Il éprouve des sentiments passionnés pour Clélia Conti, une jeune femme belle...
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When Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt and finds Cleopatra in hiding, he encourages her to return to the palace and embrace her role as queen. Shaw depicts an unlikely pair that bond over a common goal.
As Roman forces invade Egypt, Julius Caesar stumbles across a young Cleopatra hiding amongst the statues. He initially conceals his identity, as the queen expresses concern over Caesar and his impending army. When he convinces her to return to the...
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Une édition de référence de Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
Madame de Rênal s'appuya sur son bras, et avec tant d'abandon que sa joue sentit la chaleur de celle de Julien.
Les nuits de ces deux êtres furent bien différentes. Madame de Rênal était exaltée par les transports de la volupté morale la plus élevée. Une jeune fille coquette qui aime de bonne heure s'accoutume...
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"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage,...
13) The Flying Inn
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When the government cracks down on alcohol sales, two men decide to leave their small fishing village to avoid the law and find new opportunities. The Flying Inn is an irreverent satire that delivers a unique commentary on power and politics. Humphrey Pump, also known as "Hump," is a bar owner whose business is undercut by strict alcohol regulations. Adult beverages can only be sold when a pub sign in present. But instead, of adhering to the rules,...
14) Heartbreak House
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Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinner parties, to be held at the house of her father, the eccentric Captain Shotover, an inventor in his late 80s who is trying to create a psychic ray that will destroy dynamite. The house is built in the shape of the stern of a ship. Lady Utterword, Shotover's other daughter, arrives from Australia, but he pretends not to recognise her. Hesione says they are...
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Une parodie littéraire lancée en clin d'oeil à Georges Perec
Pour son retour au roman pur, Maxime Benoît-Jeannin, dissident oulipien, en hommage à Georges Perec, a organisé les noces de l'imagination et de l'humour. Faisant donner au roman ses ultimes ressources, il le lance comme un gaz hilarant sur la morne fiction contemporaine.
Entre la mer du Nord et le Rhin, poussant une pointe vers le Sud, s'étend la Banane Bleue, une ville repoussante...
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Extrait: "ARABELLE. Quel temps fait-il? JULIE. Le temps que Madame voudra. ARABELLE. Tu es une sotte. Ouvre les rideaux. JULIE. Tiens il fait du soleil! ARABELLE. Ah! Quel beau temps... J'ai envie d'aller déjeuner dans la serre... As-tu donné à manger aux oiseaux?"
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"The Man of Destiny" is one of Shaw's shorter works, just a one-act play, in which we see the mastery of character development that is so common to the playwright's works. The play is an investigation of a young twenty-seven year old general by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte who has yet to achieve the accomplishments for which make him such an important figure in world history. In the play, we find him waiting impatiently at an inn on the road between...
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Born in Burma in 1870, Scottish writer H. H. Munro adopted the pseudonym Saki to satirize the social conventions, cruelty, and foolishness of the Edwardian era. His highly readable blend of flippant humor and outrageous inventiveness is often overlaid with a mood of horror. After Munro's untimely death in action during World War I, Christopher Morley wrote: "the empty glass we turn down for him is the fragile, hollow-stemmed goblet meant for the finest...
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Extrait: "JOSÉPHINE, un panier sous le bras: Bonjour la laitière. MADAME BONVIVANT: Bonjour, mam'zelle Joséphine. JOSÉPHINE: M'avez-vous gardé ma crème? Ah! La voilà. MADAME BONVIVANT: Non, c'est la cruche à mame Pochet? Elle est en retard ce matin, ça m'étonne. JOSÉPHINE: Elle était de noce hier. MADAME BONVIVANT: Tiens! la noce de qui donc? JOSÉPHINE: La noce de mademoiselle Gibou, la fille de la fruitière."
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Extrait : "Quoi qu'on en ait dit, cette comédie n'est pas une pièce politique, dans le sens courant du mot: c'est une pièce sociale. Elle n'attaque et ne défend que des idées, abstraction faite de toute forme de gouvernement. Son vrai titre serait les Cléricaux, si ce vocable était de mise au théâtre. Le parti qu'il désigne compte dans ses rangs des hommes de toutes les origines, des partisans de l'empire comme des partisans des Bourbons."
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