Word: shavianly
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...comparatively slight compared to the dreadful bulk. None the less, it is necessary that he dominate the stage three-fourths of the time. He succeeds in doing this inimitably. He presents an almost perfect picture of a gentle, super-intelligent worldling, with a touch of typically Shavian spirituality, a kind of Fenelon in gaiters. It is a very fine creation...
...married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto, and that the Mayoress is the eternal...