Bernard Shaw
Author
Description
In 1900 Bernard Shaw completed the difficult task of drafting the Fabian's society position in the manifest Fabianism and the Empire. The society's progressive program advocated for socialist values, social justice and women rights. Against the background of these modern and leftist values though, the society's position on imperialism is somehow astonishing. One of the motives for its supportive stand on imperialism lies in the yet valid division...
5) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One night, a frightened Swiss soldier of fortune climbs into the bedroom of a young Bulgarian girl and soon deflates her romantic notions about love and valor. The bonus play is set in 1796 at an inn where Napoleon rests at the start of his conquest of Italy.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Epifania is glamorous, clever-- and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months"--Container.
In the bonus play, set 40 years in the future, the king must match wits with an unruly mistress...
9) My fair lady
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
11) Pygmalion
Series
Criterion collection volume 85
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000], c1938
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor Henry Higgins works to make a pretty flower girl into a young lady of society.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 810 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The changeling: Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to one man, but loves another. She hires her father's servant to kill her betrothed, but is then horrified at what she has done.
The apple cart: The king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet wanting a constitutional monarchy.
Caesar and Claretta: The story of Mussolini and his lover, Claretta Petacci on their last night together.
The philanthropist: A circle of friends talks of unimportant...
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
In the bonus play, "Mrs. Landfrey and her three children return to England after 18 years abroad, where a chance encounter with their traditionalist husband and father quickly entangles them in a series of comic events"--Container.