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...different reasons: though central to both is the curious fact--which I have not seen propounded elsewhere--that the play is not high tragedy at all, indeed, it would be possible--though I am not proffering this as the best solution, to play the work as essentially a near-Shavian high comedy; and of course Shaw did at least treat the Egyptian queen in similar fashion, though taking her at a much tenderer age, in Caesar and Cleopatra. Shakespeare did not present us here with an exalted love: Cleopatra is a nymphomaniac; and sex is, for Antony, just an animalistic...
This only means, of course, that Getting Married is another Shavian discussion play, cast in a form of which Shaw is an acknowledged master. But though all the Shavian turnabouts and tricks and gimmicks and gags are brought into the act, Getting Married frequently seems mechanical, clumsy, tired. Surely, for instance, nobody in the entire Shavian gallery is less gracefully created than General Boxer Bridgenorth, who smokes a pipe for a running gag, points out frequently that he is "Only a silly soldier man," and says "Dash my buttons" at intervals (sometimes, a glance at the text informs me, with...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). G. B. Shaw's report on the attempted taming of a typically Shavian rogue. Captain Brassbound's Conversion stars Christopher Plummer and Greer Garson...
...Death of Satan. Poet Ronald Duncan tells a Shavian tale about a nervous Devil who feels that things are going too well in Hell and dispatches Don Juan to earth to find out why. The play's whet-stoned humor makes up for an inadequate production...
Colin Wilson likes to go on intellectual safaris, bag a great book and scatter the author's thoughts among the simple natives. His favorite hunting ground is Shawland, where he stalks the Abominable Superman, and he never tires of preaching the first Shavian commandment, which can be read backward or forward: God is the Life Force-the Life Force...