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Bishop, G.W.: Ein Spaziergang und ein Gespräch mit Bernard Shaw.
George Bernard Shaw war ein irischer Dramatiker und Sozialist, dessen Stücke meisterhaft Komödie mit gesellschaftlicher Kritik verbinden. Er befasste sich mit drängenden Problemen seiner Zeit wie Bildung, Ehe, Religion und Klassenungerechtigkeit, wobei jedes seiner umfangreichen dramatischen Werke diese Themen mit unerschrockenem Witz und Scharfsinn untersuchte. Als glühender Sozialist und Redner setzte sich Shaw für eine gerechtere Gesellschaft ein, befürwortete gleiche Rechte für Frauen und kämpfte gegen die Ausbeutung der Arbeiterklasse. Seine Werke, die sich durch scharfe Intelligenz und eine einzigartige Perspektive auszeichnen, hallen bis heute mit ihrer Relevanz und literarischen Brillanz nach.






Bishop, G.W.: Ein Spaziergang und ein Gespräch mit Bernard Shaw.
Für Liebhaber des boshaften Humors: George Bernard Shaw. »Die Beziehung des Vorgesetzten zum Untergebenen schließt gute Manieren aus.«
Im Zentrum Bernard Shaws Anliegens stehen nun nicht mehr, wie bei den früheren Werken, Kritik an den gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen und Aufruf zur Veränderung der äußeren Welt, sondern die inneren Möglichkeiten und notwendigen Bewußtseinsveränderungen des einzelnen, der seine Chance zur individuellen Erfahrung ergreifen muß, um die vitalisierende Kraft des eigenen Lebens zu spüren, die wir als Glück empfinden. schovat popis
In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book documents his experiences there, as well as the work he produced in response to the Gallery’s collection. Shaw is known for his minutely detailed and luminously atmospheric depictions of the urban landscape and woodlands of central England. Painting scenes from his native region, Shaw meditates on the central themes of relationships, ancestry, and love. His preferred medium, Humbrol enamel paint, is a deliberate means of distancing himself from the traditions of oil painting—and, it might seem, from the values embedded in the National Gallery itself. Yet as a teenager in Coventry, Shaw was fascinated by the Gallery, traveling regularly to London to draw from those artists he found inspiring. This engaging volume reproduces his first series of paintings on canvas, together with working drawings and an essay by the artist himself.
Includes titles such as Buoyant Billions: A comedy of no manners, Farfetched Fables in which Shaw's thoughts simplified; Shakes vs. Shav in which puppets portray Shaw and Shakespeare - the play comprises a comic argument between the two playwrights, an intellectual Punch and Judy; and, Why She Would Not, his final play.
Features four plays that satirize such issues as marriage, civilization, military bravery, and the pursuit of man by woman.
Nobel laureate, Oscar winner, and author of more than 50 plays, Bernard Shaw is perhaps as renowned for his political views as for his awe-inspiring artistic output. A brand new selection of his writings on war bring once more to the forefront the polemical work of one of the most outspoken commentators of the early 20th century. As a cofounder of the Fabian society, an equal rights campaigner, and an ardent socialist, Shaw was never known to shy away from controversy, and was accused of treason for the 1914 publication Common Sense About the War , in which he affront patriots and the government alike. His vehemently anti-war stance was almost prophetic in its progressive nature, and holds particular resonance in today's climate of unrest.
One of his most important plays and one of the most renowned comedies, George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man talks about the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. The story revolves around the incident of a Swiss soldier fighting in the Serbian army who bursts into a young Bulgarian woman's bedroom and begs her to hide him. A crafted combination of wit and humour, this classic is an epitome of a satire on the typical values about war, morality, love and class.
Mit e. Brief v. Walkley, Arthur. 323 S. N.-A.