George Bernard Shaw audiobooks
Pygmalion
by George Bernard ShawDramatized by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, the play Pygmalion exactly reflects Greek mythical character through Professor Henry Higgins who falls in love with Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who was being trained by him on etiquette and accent to mingle with upper class society. However the domination of professor is not liked by he..
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard ShawBernard Shaw's comedy play Arms and the Man is set during 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. In an attempt to escape from Bulgarian army, Captain Bluntschli of Serbian army enters the house of Bulgarian woman Raina. Hours long conversation between them changes the views of Raina on the war. After the meeting Raina ignores her betrothed Sergius Saranoff, a w..
Candida
by George Bernard ShawCandida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what..
Major Barbara
by George Bernard ShawMajor Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, ..
Don Juan in Hell
by George Bernard ShawMan and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to calls for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. Man and Superman opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but it omitted the third act. A part of the act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed ..
Heartbreak House
by George Bernard ShawHeartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to s..
Caesar and Cleopatra
by George Bernard ShawCaesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed in a single staged reading..