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Major Barbara / by Bernard Shaw ; with an introduction and notes by A.C. Ward

It is evening in the library of Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in January 1906. Her son, Stephen enters. Britomart aggressively announces that as a grown man, Stephen must take charge of the family affairs. Lomax, his sister Sarah's fiancé, will not receive his trust fund for years. Barbara, the most promising member of the household, has joined the Salvation Army and taken up with a tempestuous Greek scholar, Adolphus Cusins. Britomart cannot avoid the topic any longer -- they must speak of Stephen's father, the great military industrialist Andrew Undershaft.

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  • "Theatre Research Institute Scripts Collection"@en
  • "First aid to critics"@en
  • "Arzt am Scheideweg"
  • "Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute Scripts Collection"@en
  • "Diable en été"
  • "Scripts Collection"@en
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  • "Major Barbara"

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  • ""A play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor.""
  • "The play focuses on the quest for salvation between two opposing sides, a wealthy man who owns a munitions factory and his daughter, a Salvation Army worker. Each attempts to convert the other to their viewpoint and in the process, questions the role and meaning of morality, religion, wealth, virtue, and industrialization in society."
  • "It is evening in the library of Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in January 1906. Her son, Stephen enters. Britomart aggressively announces that as a grown man, Stephen must take charge of the family affairs. Lomax, his sister Sarah's fiancé, will not receive his trust fund for years. Barbara, the most promising member of the household, has joined the Salvation Army and taken up with a tempestuous Greek scholar, Adolphus Cusins. Britomart cannot avoid the topic any longer -- they must speak of Stephen's father, the great military industrialist Andrew Undershaft."@en
  • "Review of 1929 production at Wyndham's Theatre."@en
  • "Major Barbara is a three act play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. Major Barbara has been called the most controversial of Shaw's works.[citation needed] His seeming criticism of Christianity and The Salvation Army caused some to accuse him of blasphemy, while others defended what they saw as his realistic presentation of religion. An Officer of The Salvation Army, Major Barbara Undershaft, becomes disillusioned when her Christian denomination accepts money from an armaments manufacturer (her father) and a whisky distiller. She eventually decid."@en
  • "This ed. first pub. 1960."@en
  • "Martin Beck Theatre, operated by Martin Beck Theatre Corp., Louis A. Lotito, managing director, Robert L. Joseph and the Producers Theatre present Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Glynis Johns, Eli Wallach, Cornelia Otis Skinner in "Major Barbara," by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Charles Laughton, with Colin Keith-Johnson, Nancy Malone, Sally Gracie, Walter Burke, Patricia Ripley, Richard Lupino, Frederic Warriner, Myra Carter, settings and lighting by Donald Oenslager, costumes by Dorothy Jeakins."
  • "When a Salvation Army officer learns that her father, a wealthy armaments manufacturer, has donated lots of money to her organization, she resigns in disgust but eventually sees the truth of her father's reasoning that social iniquity derives from poverty; it is only through accumulating wealth and power that people can help each other."@en
  • ""Is one of Shaw's most serious and important plays. The story of the contest between the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his daughter, the Salvation Army Major Barbara, is a provocative discussion between money, power and moral purpose."--- Provided by publisher."
  • "Major Barbara is thought to be one of Shaw's most controversial works. While trying to give a realistic presentation of how he saw Christianity, many accused him of blasphemy. Major Barbara Undershaft thought it hypocrisy that her church accepted charity from companies, such as a whisky distiller, and eventually decided that it would be more fulfilling to bring salvation to people who had plenty of vises, the people in need. Shaw intended to show that no matter how terrible the donor may be, the donation can produce good."@en
  • "Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw. Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy weapons trader, despises poverty believing "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty ... our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor". His daughter, Barbara, devotes herself to charity. When a shelter for the poor is at risk of closure due to lack of funds, the idealistic Barbara ..."@en
  • ""A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army.""
  • "Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments dealer, loves money and despises poverty. His energetic daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by working as a Major in the Salvation Army. She sees her father as just another soul to be saved. But when the Salvation Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day. Is the Army right to accept money that has been obtained by 'Death and Destruction'? Barbara is forced to examine her moral assumptions. Is she tricked into the attempt to unite spiritual goodness with material power? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is also one of Shaw's most powerful and forward-looking plays. - Publisher."
  • "A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army."
  • "A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army."@en
  • "Drama about Barbara Undershaft who resigns from the Salvation Army when her millionaire father, owner of an armaments factory, donates money to the Army."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Dramat irlandzki w języku angielskim"
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  • "Didactic drama"
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  • "Major Barbara : In three acts"
  • "Major Barbara / Bernard Shaw ; definitive text"
  • "La comandanta Bárbara : comedia"
  • "Major Barbara / by Bernard Shaw ; with an introduction and notes by A.C. Ward"@en
  • "Major Barbara : mit der Vorrede des Autors"
  • "MAJOR BARBARA"
  • "Major Barbara [Programmheft]"
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  • "Major Barbara"@es
  • "Major Barbara"
  • "Major Barbara"@en
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  • "La Comandanta Bárbaza : comedia en tres actos y en prosa"@es
  • "La comandanta Bárbara comedia en tres actos y en prosa"
  • "La Comandanta Bárbara : comedia en tres actos y en prosa"
  • "Major Barbara; Komödie"
  • "Major Barbara : definitive Text"
  • "Major Barbara : mit der vorrede des Autors"
  • "Major Barbara : Komödie"
  • "Major Barbara : [a play] in three acts"
  • "Majoor Barbara: tooneelspel in 4 bedrijven"
  • "Major Barbara : In 3 acts"
  • "Il maggiore Barbara"@it
  • "Il maggiore Barbara"
  • "Major Barbara : a screen version"
  • "Major Barbara : a screen version"@en
  • "Major Barbara [deutsch]"
  • "Komödien des Unglaubens"
  • "Major Barbara : pièce en quatre actes"
  • "Il maggiore Barbara : tre atti"
  • "Il maggiore Barbara : tre atti"@it
  • "Major Barbara with an essay as first aid to critics"@en
  • "Major barbara : definitive text"
  • "Major Barbara. In 3 acts"
  • "Major Barbara. In 3 acts"@en
  • "Major Barbara. [A play in three acts]"@en
  • "Major Barbara; in three acts"@en
  • "Il Maggiore Barbara : tre atti"
  • "Major Barbara : with an essay as first aid to critics"@en
  • "La comandanta Bárbara : comedia en tres actos y en prosa"@es
  • "Major Barbara, in 3 acts"@en
  • "Major Barbara, in three acts"@en
  • "Major Barbara, in three acts"
  • "Major Barbara : definitive text"
  • "Major Barbara : definitive text"@en
  • "Major Barbara : in three acts"@en
  • "Major Barbara a screen version"@en
  • "Major Barbara : in three acts"
  • "Major Barbara = [Major Barbara : Hra o třech dějstvích]"
  • "Il Maggiore Barbara"@it
  • "Major Barbara : Komödie ; [d. Bühnen u. Vereinen gegenüber Ms.]"
  • "Major Barbara a discussion in three acts"@en
  • "Major Barbara : Komödie. Dt. von Siegfried Trebitsch"
  • "Major Barbara : Komödie in drei Akten"
  • "Major Barbara; definitive text"@en
  • "Major Barbara : Stage Version"
  • "Major Barbara : [Major Barbara]"
  • "Major Barbara, with an essay as first aid to critics"@en
  • "Komödien des Unglaubens : Major Barbara ; Der Arzt am Scheideweg"
  • "Major Barbara : definitive text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence"@en
  • "Major Barbara [French]"
  • "Major Barbara : in 3 acts"
  • "Major Barbara ; In three acts"@en
  • "Majoor Barbara, tooneelspel in vier bedrijven"
  • "Majoor Barbara : tooneelspel in vier bedrijven"
  • "Major Barbara Komödie"
  • "Major Barbara. In three acts"@en
  • "Il maggiore Barbara Tre atti"
  • "Major Barbara : [photographs]"@en
  • "Major barbara"@en
  • "Major barbara"
  • "Major Brabara"
  • "La comandanta Bárbara"
  • "Major Barbara. : In three acts"

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