Man & Superman : A Comedy & A Philosophy (Record no. 19735)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780140450194
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 014045019X
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 822
Item number SHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Shaw, Bernard
Relator term Author
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Man & Superman : A Comedy & A Philosophy
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher Penguin Books
Place of publication London
Year of publication 1993
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 264 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Man and Superman" shows Shaw's wit at its most brilliant and his speculations at their boldest.<br/>The play, as Shaw explains in the preface, is on the Don Juan theme. Taking all the ingredients of the legend, as used by Mozart in "Don Giovanni," Shaw reordered them to write a four-act play in which, characteristically, he turned the story on its head so that Don Juan becomes 'the quarry instead of the huntsman'.<br/>While "Man and Superman" contains high comedy of the order of Congreve, it is also a powerful drama of ideas in which Shaw explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society and his theory of Creative Evolution, a theme to which he returned twenty years later in his great dramatic cycle "Back to Methuseleh."
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Lending Books
Holdings
Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Accession Number Koha item type
Reference Main Library Main Library Stacks 17/06/1993 Purchased 297.50 822 SHA 001064 Lending Books

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