Bernard Shaw
1) Pygmalion
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When phonetics tutor and linguist Henry Higgins meets Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, he makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can teach her to speak so well that she will be able to pass herself off as a Duchess at a society ball.
10) Heartbreak House
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In this allegorical play the eccentric Captain Shotover's home hosts a cast who each represent some evil in the modern world due to apathy, confusion, or lack of purpose. The first bombs of war kill the greedy capitalist Boss Mangan and in the end there is a note of optimism.
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In 1900 Bernard Shaw completed the difficult task of drafting the Fabian's society position in the manifest Fabianism and the Empire. The society's progressive program advocated for socialist values, social justice and women rights. Against the background of these modern and leftist values though, the society's position on imperialism is somehow astonishing. One of the motives for its supportive stand on imperialism lies in the yet valid division...