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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

The ultimate epigram of Major Barbara can be put thus.

From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)