In Good King Charles' Golden Days - Shaw, Bernard
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This antiquarian volume contains 'In Good King Charles' Golden Days', a play in two acts by George Bernard Shaw. It is a wonderful restoration comedy and a discussion on the nature of power and wealth between King Charles II, Isaac Newton, George Fox and Godfrey Kneller. It is sure to appeal to discerning fans of restoration theatre and collectors of Shaw's seminal work. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.…mehr

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This antiquarian volume contains 'In Good King Charles' Golden Days', a play in two acts by George Bernard Shaw. It is a wonderful restoration comedy and a discussion on the nature of power and wealth between King Charles II, Isaac Newton, George Fox and Godfrey Kneller. It is sure to appeal to discerning fans of restoration theatre and collectors of Shaw's seminal work. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish literary genius, he earned his name as prestigious dramatist, literary critic, socialist and political spokesman. He was born on 26 July 1856 Dublin, Ireland, youngest child of a middle class family. His father George Carr Shaw was a civil servant and a failed business man and his mother Lucinda Elizabeth Gurley Shaw was a singer. Due to his father's alcoholism family suffered a lot, his mother left the home with his sister and went London. Shaw studied at Wesleyan Connextional School, Dublin's Central Model School and Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School. Due to poverty he first worked as a junior clerk, at the 15 years of age. In 1876, he visited London and lived with his mother and sister. He chose journalism and writing as his career. Through his comical and humorous plays, he mostly wrote on existing social issues and exploitation of the working middle class that he faced himself. He wrote 60 plays based on social themes. In 1925, for his work Pygmalion he got Nobel Prize for literature later for it's film adaptation he received Oscar Award. His notable world-class Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Candida, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra etc. At the age of 94, on 2 November 1950, George Bernard Shaw died.