Major Barbara (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Play of ideas
- Time of Work: January, 1906
- Setting: London and Middlesex
- Principal Characters: Sir Andrew Undershaft, Lady Britomart, Barbara, Adolphus Cusins
- Genres: Drama, Problem play, Comedy
- Subjects: Social action, Twentieth century, Social issues, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, London, Reformers, Wealth, Salvation Army
- Locales: London, England, Middlesex, England
The Story:
Lady Britomart Undershaft had summoned her children to her house in the fashionable London suburb of Wilton Crescent. Stephen, the first to arrive, greeted his mother in the library. Lady Britomart, a formidable woman of fifty, intended to discuss the family’s finances. She reminded Stephen that his sister Sarah’s fiancé, Charles Lomax, whose inheritance was still ten years off, was too brainless to support a wife. She objected less to Adolphus Cusins, a professor of Greek, who was engaged to her daughter Barbara, a major in the Salvation Army.
Stephen...
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