Includes four plays: ARMS AND THE MAN, CANDIDA, THE MAN OF DESTINY and YOU NEVER CAN TELL. The opening night of ARMS AND THE MAN (1894) made Shaw "the most formidable man in modern letters" (W.B. Yeats). Set in the Balkan mountains, this drama plays with the distinction between allies and enemies, and heroes and cowards. CANDIDA presents the complicated relationship between a vicar, his wife, and her young admirer.
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By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
[Shaw] did his best in redressing the fateful unbalance between truth and reality, in lifting mankind to a higher rung of social maturity. He often pointed a scornful finger at human frailty, but his jests were never at the expense of humanity. Thomas Mann
Shaw will not allow complacency; he hates second-hand opinions; he attacks fashion; he continually challenges and unsettles, questioning and provoking us even when he is making us laugh. And he is still at it. No cliché or truism of contemporary life is safe from him. Michael Holroyd
In his works Shaw left us his mind. . . . Today we have no Shavian wizard to awaken us with clarity and paradox, and the loss to our national intelligence is immense. The Sunday Times
He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr. Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade. The Independent
His plays were superb exercises in high-level argument on every issue under the sun, from feminism and God, to war and eternity, but they were also hits and still are. The Daily Mail
[Shaw] did his best in redressing the fateful unbalance between truth and reality, in lifting mankind to a higher rung of social maturity. He often pointed a scornful finger at human frailty, but his jests were never at the expense of humanity. Thomas Mann
Shaw will not allow complacency; he hates second-hand opinions; he attacks fashion; he continually challenges and unsettles, questioning and provoking us even when he is making us laugh. And he is still at it. No cliché or truism of contemporary life is safe from him. Michael Holroyd
In his works Shaw left us his mind. . . . Today we have no Shavian wizard to awaken us with clarity and paradox, and the loss to our national intelligence is immense. The Sunday Times
He was a Tolstoy with jokes, a modern Dr. Johnson, a universal genius who on his own modest reckoning put even Shakespeare in the shade. The Independent
His plays were superb exercises in high-level argument on every issue under the sun, from feminism and God, to war and eternity, but they were also hits and still are. The Daily Mail