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Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Devil's Disciple, The Doctor's Dilemma, Major Barbara, Misalliance, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion. Full cast recordings starring Kate Burton, Roger Rees, Shirley Knight, Anne Heche, Eric Stoltz, Martin Jarvis, Paxton Whitehead, Richard Dreyfuss, Bruce Davison and many more.

The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaws incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession. A well-respected physician is forced to choose whom he shall save: a bumbling friend or the neer-do-well husband of the woman he loves. Starring Jane Carr, Ken Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Martin Jarvis and Paxton Whitehead Written by George Bernard Shaw

Modern parallels abound in the plight of Cambridge-educated mathematics wiz Vivie Warren, who discovers that her comfortable upbringing was financed in unspeakable ways. Shaw pits a clever heroine against a memorable gallery of rogues in this superbly intelligent -- and still shocking -- comedy, banned for eight years from the English stage. Starring Shirley Knight, Dakin Matthews, Kaitlin Hopkins, Basil Langton, and Robin Sachs Written by Geo...

Witty masterpiece combines high comedy with social commentary in deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. First produced on the London stage in 1894, Arms and the Man is one of the most acted and studied of Shaw's plays. It is reprinted here from an authoritative early edition, complete with Shaw's preface to Volume II of Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant.

Shaw's warm and witty play continues to challenge conventional wisdom about male/female relationships. Candida concerns a beautiful married woman's choice between the two men who love her.