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Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion.

Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion.

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Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion.

by Shaw, [G.] Bernard

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Sm. London: Grant Richards, 1901. Sm. 8vo, xxxviii, 308. With 3 photogravure plates. Original olive cloth, backstrip browned. A good copy with a fine association. § First edition, inscribed by Shaw's wife: "Louise S. Broadwood from Charlotte F. Shaw. Jan. 1901. Later rubberstamp "ex libris Gilbert Bagnani". A fascinating association copy. Louise S. Broadwood was a suffragette. "The strain of writing these plays, while his critical and political work went on unabated, so sapped Shaw’s strength that a minor illness became a major one. In 1898, during the process of recuperation, he married his unofficial nurse, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an Irish heiress and friend of Beatrice and Sidney Webb. The apparently celibate marriage lasted all their lives, Shaw satisfying his emotional needs in paper-passion correspondences with Ellen Terry, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and others." (Britannica).

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Title
Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion.
Author
Shaw, [G.] Bernard
Book Condition
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Hardcover
Publisher
Grant Richards
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1901
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