Press Cuttings

Name: Press Cuttings
Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9781787248106

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Series: Bernard Shaw Library
Language: English
Length: 54 pages
ISBN: 9781787248106
Published: 22 August 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

Bernard Shaw
Shaw
drama
play
humour
comedy
satire
Victorian
social
political

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Description

A room in the War Office on 1 April 1912. General Mitchener is in a state of considerable anxiety about the number of Suffragettes chaining themselves to government buildings. He has had all the railings removed, but is informed by an orderly that another suffragette has padlocked herself to the door scraper. Surprisingly, he has received a letter from the Prime Minister, Balsquith, telling him to release the woman and let her into the building. When he does so, he learns that this suffragette is none other than the Prime Minister himself, disguised as a woman.

Author

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was the Irish playwright of argument as entertainment — Pygmalion, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman. A Nobel laureate and Fabian, he made comedy carry economics, sex, and the English class system. Shaw's prefaces are almost another play. With 21 titles in our catalogue, he remains the theatre's most articulate pest: ideas with timing.

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