Androcles and the Lion, Paperback/Bernard Shaw
Descriere
Description George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. Before becoming a playwright he wrote music and literary criticism. Shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. Shaw was particularly conscious of the exploitation of the working class. When the Romans intend to throw Androcles and the other Christians to the lions, it turns out that the lion who is supposed to eat the Christians is a personal friend of Androcles. This famous story begins "A jungle path. A lion's roar, a melancholy suffering roar, comes from the jungle. It is repeated nearer. The lion limps from the jungle on three legs, holding up his right forepaw, in which a huge thorn sticks. He sits down and contemplates it. He licks it. He shakes it. He tries to extract it by scraping it along the ground, and hurts himself worse. He roars piteously. He licks it again. Tears drop from his eyes. He limps painfully off the path and lies down under the trees, exhausted with pain. Heaving a long sigh, like wind in a trombone, he goes to sleep."
Despre autor
George Bernard Shaw a fost un dramaturg, polemicist, critic literar și activist politic irlandez, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru literatură în 1925, considerat de unii critici ca unul din cei mai importanți dramaturgi de limbă engleză de la William Shakespeare. Shaw s-a făcut cunoscut atât ca autor de piese de teatru, cât și în calitate de critic de artă și publicist politic.
