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Item Details
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MAJOR BARBARA
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By: |
George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence (Editor), Margery Morgan |
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Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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£5.83 |
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ISBN 10: |
0140437908 |
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9780140437904 |
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PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
30 November, 2000 |
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176 |
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A drama about an armaments king, his daughter in the Salvation army and a foundling Professor of Greek. The society that makes Barbara necessary is repellent, but should we admire or condemn do-gooders like her? |
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Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque - forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by 'Death and Destruction'? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaw's most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war. |
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UK |
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Penguin Classics |
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