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Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
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Bernard Shaw's short comic play satirizes an incompetent, self-important British aristocrat supposedly aiding the war effort during the First World War. It suits readers interested in early twentieth-century drama, wartime satire, and Shaw's social criticism.
Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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