Major Barbara
Americannoun
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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
Major Barbara, not being a modern Tetzel, or the treasurer of a hospital, refuses to sell Bill absolution for a sovereign.
From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard
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