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999			_c19735 _d19735
020			_a 9780140450194
020			_a014045019X
082			_a822 _bSHA
100			_aShaw, Bernard _eaut
245			_aMan & Superman : A Comedy & A Philosophy
260			_bPenguin Books _aLondon _c1993
300			_a264 pages
520			_a"Man and Superman" shows Shaw's wit at its most brilliant and his speculations at their boldest. 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'. 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."
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