Word: shavianly
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...honor as the manacles of a slave mentality. In his brain, even more than in bed, this great libertine is the precursor of Nietzsche's imagined Superman. Since Bernard Shaw was enamored of the same theme, it is fitting that much of Don Juan reminds one of Shavian dialogue and disputation...
...said, "I feel as if I want to tear up all my plays and begin all over again." Soon afterwards he began writing Heartbreak House. Although he subtitled the remarkable work "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on an English Theme," the played turned out to be a quintessentially Shavian treatment of "cultured, leisured" British society before World...
...keep trying to increase the "four great tragedies" by one. We are not gripped by Antony and Cleopatra as we are by Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Lear; we remain relatively detached. In fact, there is enough satire in Antony to make it possible to stage the work as Shavian high comedy...
...targets are routinely Shavian -English justice, hypocrisy and prudery. The comic fall guys are Arab princes. The British exploited them for empire; Shaw does it for cheap and wilted laughs. The hero is an anti-Establishment mouthpiece, a humorless pirate chief (Pernell Roberts) too tame to make the chorus line in Gilbert and Sullivan...
Together they may eventually shape Homo futurus, a creature resembling the Superman of the Nietzschean and Shavian dream?or at least one whose powers will be dramatically different from contemporary...