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Dan Laurence & George Bernard Shaw
Last Plays
"in Good King Charles’s Golden Days"; Buoyant Billions; Farfetched Fables; Shakes Versus Shav; Why She Would not

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In Good King Charles’s Golden Days: a true history that never happened. A discussion play; the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II (‘Mr Rowley’), Isaac Newton, George Fox and the artist Godfrey Kneller. Buoyant Billions: a comedy of no manners.Farfetched fables. Shaw’s thoughts simplified.Shakes vs. Shav. Puppets portray Shaw and Shakespeare. The play comprises a comic argument between the two playwrights, an intellectual Punch and Judy.Why She Would Not. His final play.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9780141963747 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5814930 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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