by George Bernard Shaw · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140450194
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«Man and Superman» is George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (272 pages, in English).
After her father's death, Ann Whitefield comes under the guardianship of Roebuck Ramsden and John Tanner. Tanner, author of «The Revolutionist's Handbook», flees to Spain suspecting Ann wants to marry him; she pursues him. Shaw inverts the Don Juan myth in a comedy of ideas about woman, the artist and creative evolution.
Edition from The Shaw Library collection supervised by Dan H. Laurence, with the 1903 preface and the appendix «The Revolutionist's Handbook». The play was originally published in 1903.
For fans of classical theatre, early 20th-century English literature and satirical comedies of ideas.
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.
