Man and Superman : a comedy and a philospphy / Bernard Shaw ; definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence ; with an introduction by Stanley Weintraub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.

Contributor:

Laurence, Dan H.

Series:

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Bernard Shaw library

Penguin classics

Bernard Shaw library

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiv, 264 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin, 2000.

Summary:

John Tanner is horrified to discover that he is the object of Ann Whitefield's ambitions in her search for a satisfactory husband. For Tanner, political pamphleteer and independent mind, escape is the only option. But Ann is grimly resigned to society's expectations and ready for the chase.

In this caustic satire on romantic conventions, Shaw casts his net wide across European culture to draw on works by Mozart, Nietzsche and Conan Doyle for his re-telling of the Don Juan myth. As Stanley Weintraub comments, it was Shaw's ability to combine popular comedy with intellectual seriousness that made Man and Superman 'the first great twentieth-century English play', and one that remains a classic expose of the eternal struggle between the sexes.

Contents:

Epistle Dedicatory 7

Man and Superman 39

The Revolutionist's Handbook 211

I. On Good Breeding 215

II. Property and Marriage 217

III. The Perfectionist Experiment at Oneida Creek 222

IV. Man's Objection to His Own Improvement 225

V. The Political Need for the Superman 226

VI. Prudery Explained 228

VII. Progress an Illusion 230

VIII. The Conceit of Civilization 236

IX. The Verdict of History 242

X. The Method 245

Maxims for Revolutionists 251.

ISBN:

0140437886

OCLC:

47623987