Bernard Shaw Androcles and the Lion برنارد شاو

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1967 USA 
118 pages 
in stock 
soft cover 
380 Tomans

Androcles and the Lion (Shavian: · ) is a 1912 play by Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaws retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles as one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die but surviving because the lion who was intended to tear him apart recognised him as the man who once extracted an agonising thorn from his paw. 

Shaw wrote Androcles and the Lion as a counterblast to two plays of which he disapproved: Wilson Barretts The Sign of the Cross  written in 1895 but still highly popular nearly twenty years later and J. M. Barries Peter Pan. Shaw disliked the religious melodrama of the first, and thought the second appealed greatly to adults but bored children to sleep.He said he wanted wanted "to show Barrie how a play for children should be handled". He based the plot of his play on a fable written by the Roman writer Aulus Gellius in the second century AD.

The play, directed by Harley Granville-Barker, opened at the St Jamess Theatre, London, on 1 September 1913. It ran for 66 performances.

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