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Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan (Paperback, 1)
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Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan (Paperback, 1)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered
to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British
theatre. Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time
of its premiere in Vienna 1913 and it has remained popular to this
day. Shaw was awarded an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay
of the film adaptation. It was, of course, later made into the
much-loved musical My Fair Lady. Heartbreak House (1917), which was
finally performed in 1920 and published in 1921, bares the
hallmarks of European modernism and a formal break from Shaw's
previous work. A meditation on the war and the resultant decline in
European aristocratic culture, it was perhaps staged too soon after
the conflict; indeed, it did not have the success of his earlier
works, which was likely due to his experimental aesthetics combined
with a war-weary audience that sought lighter fare. However, while
this contemporary reception was muted, it is now recognised as a
modernist masterpiece. Saint Joan (1923) marked Shaw's resurrection
and apotheosis. The first major work written of Joan of Arc after
her canonization (1920), the play interrogates the origins of
European nationalism in the post-war era. Like Pygmalion, it was an
immediate world-wide hit and secured Shaw the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1925. Drawing upon the transcripts of Joan's trial,
Shaw blended his trademark wit to produce a hybrid genre of comedy
and history play. Despite the historical setting, Saint Joan is
highly accessible and continues to delight audiences.
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