{"id":7642,"date":"2014-10-09T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2020-03-31T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T12:48:34","slug":"george-bernard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=7642","title":{"rendered":"Two 20th-century playwrights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/george_bernard_shaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11059\" title=\"BShaw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BShaw.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BShaw.gif 203w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BShaw-122x150.gif 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a4 &nbsp;George Bernard Shaw &nbsp; (1856-1950)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter of women&#8217;s rights and an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money. . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2022 \u2022&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;biography . . .&nbsp;\u2192<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">That page will give you access to his complete works \u2192<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022\u2192&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/pygmalion-by-george-bernard-shaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pygmalion&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;[audiobook]<\/a> &nbsp;\u2190<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tmdPj_XbF30\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\u21901938&nbsp;<strong>film&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\">\u2207 &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gxFk-EkSJps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners <\/a>&nbsp;\u21d0(poem)<\/h6>\n<p>I take it you already know<br \/>\nof <strong>tough<\/strong> and <strong>bough<\/strong> and <strong>cough<\/strong> and <strong>dough<\/strong>.<br \/>\nOthers may stumble, but not you,<br \/>\nOn <strong>hiccough, thorough, laugh<\/strong> and <strong>through<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWell done! And now you wish, perhaps,<br \/>\nTo learn of less familiar traps.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of <strong>heard<\/strong>, a dreadful <strong>word<\/strong><br \/>\nThat looks like <strong>beard<\/strong> and sounds like <strong>bird<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAnd <strong>dead<\/strong>-it&#8217;s said like<strong> bed<\/strong>, not <strong>bead<\/strong>.<br \/>\nFor goodness sake, don&#8217;t call it <strong>deed<\/strong>!<br \/>\nWatch out for <strong>meat<\/strong> and <strong>great<\/strong> and <strong>threat<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThey rhyme with <strong>suite<\/strong> and <strong>straight<\/strong> and <strong>debt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>moth<\/strong> is not a moth in <strong>mother<\/strong>,<br \/>\nNor <strong>both<\/strong> in <strong>bother<\/strong>, <strong>broth<\/strong> in <strong>brother<\/strong>,<br \/>\nAnd here is not a match for <strong>there<\/strong>,<br \/>\nNor <strong>dear<\/strong> and <strong>fear<\/strong> for <strong>pear<\/strong> and <strong>bear<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAnd then there&#8217;s <strong>dose<\/strong> and <strong>rose<\/strong> and <strong>lose<\/strong><br \/>\nJust look them up&#8211;and <strong>goose<\/strong> and <strong>choose<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAnd <strong>cork<\/strong> and <strong>work<\/strong> and <strong>card<\/strong> and <strong>ward<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAnd <strong>font<\/strong> and<strong> front<\/strong> and <strong>word<\/strong> and <strong>sword<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAnd <strong>do<\/strong> and <strong>go<\/strong>, then <strong>thwart<\/strong> and <strong>cart<\/strong>.<br \/>\nCome, come I&#8217;ve hardly made a start.<br \/>\nA dreadful language? Man alive,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d mastered it when I was five!<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;\u00a4 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hJicaU0-LfY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samuel Beckett<\/a> &nbsp;[1906 &#8211; 1989]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FqpjddXaw4E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WfG.jpeg\" alt=\"WfG\" width=\"209\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WfG.jpeg 242w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WfG-150x128.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Famously described as a play in which <em>\u00abnothing happens twice\u00bb<\/em>, &#8216;<strong>Waiting for Godot&#8217;<\/strong> scarcely seems recognizable as theatre at all and yet has been called the most significant play of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u2192&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/samuel-beckett.net\/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Act I\u21d0<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\/ &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u2022<\/strong>\u2192&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/samuel-beckett.net\/Waiting_for_Godot_Part2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Act II\u21d0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Samuel-Beckett.net\/#x4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-31554\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s_beckett.jpeg\" alt=\"s_beckett\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s_beckett.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s_beckett-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u221e&nbsp; A link to other online texts . . . \u2192&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.Samuel-Beckett.net\/#x4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>\u00a4 &nbsp;Cascando&nbsp;\u2193 [poem]<\/h5>\n<p>1<br \/>\n<strong>why not merely the despaired of<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>occasion of<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>wordshed<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>is it not better abort than be barren<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>the hours after you are gone are so leaden<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>they will always start dragging too soon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the grapples clawing blindly the bed of want<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>bringing up the bones the old loves<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>sockets filled once with eyes like yours<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>all always is it better too soon than never<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the black want splashing their faces<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>saying again nine days never floated the loved<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>nor nine months<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>nor nine lives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\n<strong>saying again<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>if you do not teach me I shall not learn<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>saying again there is a last<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>even of last times<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>last times of begging<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>last times of loving<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of knowing not knowing pretending<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>a last even of last times of saying<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>if you do not love me I shall not be loved<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>if I do not love you I shall not love<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the churn of stale words in the heart again<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>love love love thud of the old plunger<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>pestling the unalterable<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>whey of words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>terrified again<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of not loving<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of loving and not you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of being loved and not by you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of knowing not knowing pretending<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>pretending<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I and all the others that will love you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>if they love you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\n<strong>unless they love you<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p> \u00a4 &nbsp;George Bernard Shaw &nbsp; (1856-1950) <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter of women&#8217;s rights and an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 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