by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140450170
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«Heartbreak House» is the play by George Bernard Shaw, edited by Dan H. Laurence, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Written during the First World War, the play satirizes the English ruling class: a group of eccentrics gathers in a country house and becomes entangled in love affairs and intrigues as war approaches. The play combines comedy and allegory to portray the apathy and lack of purpose of the ruling class.
Subtitled «A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes», this edition belongs to the Shaw Library series and includes the definitive text with editorial supervision by Dan H. Laurence.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature.
