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Selected Plays (Caesar and Cleopatra / Candida / Heartbreak House / Major Barbara / Man and Superman / Pygmalion / Saint Joan)

by George Bernard Shaw · 1981

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Caesar and Cleopatra

Candida

Heartbreak House

Major Barbara

Man and Superman

Pygmalion

Saint Joan

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
classclassMore like thisLess of thisrelationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisLondonLondonMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 877 pages
Form
playsplaysMore like thisLess of this

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