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Man and Superman

American  

noun

  1. a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.


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The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Simon Godwin will direct the production, eight years after he brought Fiennes and Varma together for Man and Superman at the National Theatre.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2023

The picturesque brigands of the Sierra Nevada in Act III of Man and Superman are holding what appears to be a St Pancras vestry meeting.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012

In the 1980s, he took up residence at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket, playing opposite Peter O'Toole in Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2012

In Man and Superman, he simply inverts the boy-meets-girl formula: woman wants man, man runs for his bachelor life, woman gets man.

From Time Magazine Archive

For treatments of this theme, see Molière's play Don Juan, or Mozart's opera Don Giovanni; see also Bernard Shaw's paradoxical play, Man and Superman….

From Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson

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