Man and Superman
Man and Superman Author: George Bernard Shaw
First Performance: 1905, London; complete text 1915, Edinburgh
Published: 1903
Genre: Com. in 4 acts
Setting: England and Spain, 1900s, and hell
Cast: 18m, 7f
On the death of her father, Ann Whitefield is given as guardian two very different men: Roebuck Ramsden, a respectable man of about 60, and Jack Tanner, a rich radical in his thirties, whom Ramsden considers an anarchist. Although wooed by Octavius (Tavy) Robinson, a sensitive poet, Ann has fallen for Tanner. In order to escape Ann's designs on him, Tanner flees to Spain with his chauffeur Straker. Captured by brigands, Tanner has a dream, ‘Don Juan in Hell’: Don Juan (Tanner) greets Doña Ana (Ann), indignant that she is in hell, and Ana's father the Statue (Ramsden). There follow lengthy debates, mainly...
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