Three Plays by Brieux / With a Preface by Bernard Shaw
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About This Book
1907. With preface by Bernard Shaw. English versions by Mrs. Bernard Shaw, St. John Hankin and John Pollock. Shaw considered Eugene Brieux of France the greatest playwright in Europe after Ibsen; and Brieux's rather shocking studies of social problems certainly suggest Ibsen, especially Brieux's Les avaries (Damaged Goods), which discussed sexually transmitted disease. Contents: Maternity; The Three Daughters of M. Dupont; Damaged Goods; and Maternity (new version).
Chapters (334)
- Three Plays by Brieux.
- Preface By Bernard Shaw.
- From Molière to Brieux.
- How the XIX century found itself out.
- Jack the Ripper.
- Rise of the Scientific Spirit.
- Zolaism as a Superstition.
- The Passing of the Tragic Catastrophe and the Happy Ending.
- The Difference between Brieux and Molière or Shakespear.
- Brieux and the Boulevard.
- The Pedantry of Paris.
- How to Write a Popular Play.
- Why the Critics are always Wrong.
- The Interpreter of Life.
- How the Great Dramatists torture the Public.
- Brieux’s Conquest of London.
- Parisian Stupidity.
- Brieux and the English Theatre.
- The Censorship in France and England.
- Brieux and the English Censorship.
- Taboo.
- The Attitude of the People to the Literary Arts.
- The Justification of Conventionality.
- Why Les Hannetons was Censored.
- Misadventure of a Frenchman in Westminster Abbey.
- Marriage and Malthus.
- Brieux and the Respectable Married Man.
- Brieux shews the Other Side.
- The Most Unmentionable of All Subjects.
- Why the Unmentionable Must be Mentioned on the Stage.
- Brieux and Voltaire.
- As Good Fish in the Sea.
- Maternity
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- The Three Daughters of M. Dupont
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- ACT IV
- Damaged Goods
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
- Maternity
- ACT I
- ACT II
- ACT III
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