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Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values.
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BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on <I>Common Sense about the War</I> (1914), <I>How to Settle the Irish Question</I> (1917) and <I>The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism</I> (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as <I>Music in London 1890–1894</I> (3 vols, 1931); <I>Pen Portraits and Reviews</I> (1931); and <I>Our Theatres in the Nineties</I> (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five novels and some shorter fiction, including <I>The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales</I> and <I>Cashel Byron’s Profession</I>, both published in Penguin’s Bernard Shaw Library. He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: ‘Plays Pleasant’; ‘Plays Unpleasant’; comedies; chronicle-plays; ‘metabiological Pentateuch’ (<I>Back to Methuselah, a series of plays</I>); and ‘political extravaganzas’. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.
Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values.
About the Author
BERNARD SHAW was born in Dublin in 1856. After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on <I>Common Sense about the War</I> (1914), <I>How to Settle the Irish Question</I> (1917) and <I>The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism</I> (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews, which were collected into several volumes such as <I>Music in London 1890–1894</I> (3 vols, 1931); <I>Pen Portraits and Reviews</I> (1931); and <I>Our Theatres in the Nineties</I> (3 vols, 1931). He also wrote five novels and some shorter fiction, including <I>The Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales</I> and <I>Cashel Byron’s Profession</I>, both published in Penguin’s Bernard Shaw Library. He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His plays fall into several categories: ‘Plays Pleasant’; ‘Plays Unpleasant’; comedies; chronicle-plays; ‘metabiological Pentateuch’ (<I>Back to Methuselah, a series of plays</I>); and ‘political extravaganzas’. Bernard Shaw died in 1950.
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