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????Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease...
Author
Publisher
Fireside Theatre
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
On a private New England beach, gale winds of romance engulf young and attractive Holly Dancer and her handsome, strapping Leo the lifeguard, as a galaxy of marvelously eccentric characters look on. There's Ariel, the bare survivor of a messy divorce, and her high-spirited 10-year old, Winston; Ariel's college roommate Faith, now (at long last!) pregnant; Faith's adopted daughter, Miranda; and M.J. and Hamilton, who after decades of marriage and nine...
4) Closer
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Play focuses on the desperate struggles of four individuals as they couple and re-couple, increasingly desperate in their attempts to get 'closer.' For mature audiences only, this is a powerful play examining difficult and painful issues with honesty, integrity, humor and humanity. The language, while poetic and powerful, is rough. Sex is dealt with frankly and graphically. It is an uncompromisingly honest look at the possibility (and impossibility)...
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Publisher
Boni & Liveright
Pub. Date
1928.
Language
English
Description
The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's...
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