Books Like Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Major Barbara.

Books Like Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Major Barbara.
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Mrs. Warren's Profession, a play written by Shaw in 1898, is also concerned with the morality of avoiding poverty by doing what may be considered Immoral work. Shaw's original title for Major Barbara was Andrew Undershaft's Profession.

Mother Courage and Her Children, a play written by Bertolt Brecht in 1939, seems to have been influenced by Major Barbara. Mother Courage, like Undershaft, is dependent on war to make her living but at a severe cost to her children and herself.

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, probably first performed in 1594, is a retelling of the legend of Faust, who sells his soul to the Devil. In Major Barbara, Undershaft is sometimes called Mephistopheles, the name of the Devil in Marlowe's play.

"Civil Disobedience," published in 1849, is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, who spent time in prison for refusing...

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