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Major Barbara

American  

noun

  1. a comedy (1905) by G. B. Shaw.


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Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw’s classic drama about a pious young woman at odds with her father, a wealthy munitions maker.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2016

He and Jackson starred in a series of plays, including George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" in 1956 and a hugely successful run of "Luv" in the mid-1960s.

From US News • Jun. 25, 2014

Following a London appearance in Shaw's Major Barbara, he was well received as Shylock and Petruchio for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2013

His London debut came in 1956 as George Bernard Shaw's silly-ass, man-about-town Charles Lomax in Major Barbara, before he joined the newly formed English Stage Company at the Royal Court.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

It is this credulity that drives me to help my critics out with Major Barbara by telling them what to say about it.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard