Man and Superman

By Shaw, George Bernard

Book Id: WPLBN0000632721
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Man and Superman
Author:	Shaw, George Bernard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: You once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for you to justify. You were of mature age when you made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set in motion. Yon meant me to epater le bourgeois; and if he protests, I hereby refer him to you as the accountable party.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Man and Superman, 1 -- George Bernard Shaw, 1 -- EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY, 1 -- Act I, 14 -- Act II, 43 -- Act III, 60 -- Act IV, 103 -- Man and Superman -- i