Man & Superman : A Comedy & A Philosophy (Record no. 19735)
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fixed length control field | 01078nam a2200145 a 4500 |
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 |
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 |
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Reference | Main Library | Main Library | Stacks | 17/06/1993 | Purchased | 297.50 | 822 SHA | 001064 | Lending Books |