ACT I
On the 15th June 1903, in the early forenoon, a medical
student, surname Redpenny, Christian name unknown
and of no importance, sits at work in a doctor’s
consulting-room. He devils ...
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BERNARD SHAW
1909
It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical
service of the community, as at present provided for,
is a murderous absurdity. That any sane nation,
having observed that y...
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Biography EssayA long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decadelong false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born Georg...
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The British playwright, critic, and pamphleteer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) produced more than 52 plays and playlets, three volumes of music and drama criticism, and one major volume of socialist ...
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A long life made Shaw's multifaceted activities possible, for he was handicapped by a decade-long false start in fiction, and even more by the circumstances of his upbringing. Born George Bernard Shaw...
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Had Shaw died in the same year that Queen Victoria did (1901), he would not be known as one of the greatest playwrights in English since Shakespeare, but he would still be recognized as one of the maj...
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Bernard Shaw was one of the most important, and certainly the most prolific, reform writers of the twentieth century. In provocative, trenchant, and humorous style he tried to formulate a constructive...
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The Doctor's Dilemma
Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw