Penguin plays

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913.

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"Lyman Felt is a dynamic and vigorous man who has it all: a thriving insurance business, fame as a poet, children who adore him - and two women claiming to be his wife. Restrained, conservative Theo and independent, opinionated Leah meet in the hospital where Lyman is recovering from a car wreck, having driven in a blizzard on Mount Morgan. The women's shock at Lyman's bigamy and Lyman's justification of his actions create a whirlwind of hard truths and painful memories into which Lyman's daughter, his best friend, and even the nurse taking care of him are drawn."--BOOK JACKET. "One of America's greatest and most renowned playwrights, Arthur Miller crafts a drama of love, betrayal, and the hunger to reach the limits of human experience and desire."--BOOK JACKET. "This new edition of Arthur Miller's 1991 play includes the revisions he made for the acclaimed 1998 Public Theater production starring Patrick Stewart."--BOOK JACKET.

Cat on a hot tin roof ; [and], The milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; [and], The night of the iguana

Contents, The American dream / Edward Albee - Gallous humour / Jack Richardson - The typists / Murray Schisgal - Incident at Vichy / Arthur Miller.

"Disgusted and bored by the trend for titillation and sham on the London stage, Shaw wrote these plays both to educate and entertain his audiences. In The Devil's Disciple, a clergyman turned soldier and the Shavian ideal of a Puritan hero - 'like all genuinely religious men, a reprobate and an outcast' - willingly risks his life for a stranger. Caesar and Cleopatra, a brilliant satire on contemporary Britain, contains an utterly unexpected portrait of Julius Caesar ('part brute, part woman, and part god'). In Captain Brassbound's Conversion, it is Lady Cicely's cunning manipulation of the truth that ensures that fairness, rather than justice, prevails." "Three Plays for Puritans reveals Shaw's constant delight in turning received wisdom upside down and celebrates the triumph of the individual conscience over accepted morality."--Jacket.

This edition of Plays Pleasant is one of a uniform set of ten volumes of Mr Shaws works specially published in commemoration of his ninetieth birthday, July 26th, 1946. Of each volume one hundred thousand copies have been printed. Includes 1898 Preface.

A Voyage Round My Father is a funny, subtle, touching portrait of his father's enigmatic endurance.

Contains: [Glass Menagerie]( [Streetcar Named Desire]( Sweet Bird of Youth

From the fifties to the seventies, through Brylcream and Elvis to fluorescent underpants and hash cookies, the first play in 'The Slab Boys' trilogy (followed by 'Cuttin' a Rug' and 'Still Life') catches the vibrant idiom of a whole generation. Powerful high farce rises out of the tension between Phil and Spanky's youthful wit and exuberance, combining with the dark undercurrent of sheer cruelty in their treatment of the Slab Room wimp, Hector, and other victims. 'The Slab Boys' premiered at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1978.

Five linked plays that expound Shaw's philosophy of creative evolution in an extended dramatic parable that progresses through time from the Garden of Edesn to AD 31,920. Cf Encyclopaedia Britannica.