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Fanny's First Play

By George Bernard Shaw

2019-12-09 23:07:57

Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognized it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre in the Ade ... Read more
Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognized it as the work of Shaw. It opened at the Little Theatre in the Adelphi in London on 19 April 1911 and ran for 622 performances. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicize it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's plays. A second production opened on Broadway on September 16, 1912, for 256 performances. The play toured the provinces in England in the same year. It features a play within a play. The framing play is a satire of theatre critics, whose characters were based upon Shaw's own detractors, in some cases being caricatures of real critics of the day. The main play is a pastiche of the drawing-room comedies in vogue at the time. Less

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File size70.877 KB
Print pages70
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1420941227
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George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 Nov 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to ...

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