human evolution, the process by whichhuman beingsdeveloped onEarthfrom now-extinctprimates. Viewed zoologically, we humans areHomo sapiens, aculture-bearing upright-walkingspeciesthat lives on the ground and ver
“the Negro” apart from the whitestereotypesthat had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. They also sought to break free ofVictorianmoralvalues and bourgeois shame about aspects of their lives that might, as seen by white people, reinforce racist beliefs. ...
Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. Learn m
(1990) explores the lives of nine historical characters, such asJohn Wilkes Booth, who either assassinated U.S. presidents or attempted to do so. Later Sondheim works includeBounce(2003; retitledRoad Showin 2008), about the colourful adventures of a pair of early 20th-century American...
But Shaw truly began to make his mark when he was recruited by Frank Harris to the Saturday Review as theatre critic (1895–98); in that position he used all his wit and polemical powers in a campaign to displace the artificialities and hypocrisies of the Victorian stage with a theatre ...
During the Victorian period, the House of Commons became the centre of government, the House of Lords lost power (though it remained influential until the Parliament Act of 1911), and the monarchy transformed into a symbol of the nation. The House of Commons consisted of about 600 men called...
children. His elder brother, Willie, became a journalist, and his younger sister, Isola, died of afeverwhen she was 10. As a child, Wilde wasbaptizedaRoman Catholicat his mother’sbehest, despite his family’s affiliation with theAnglican church; presumably, this act signified his mother’s...
that some areas might have to be abandoned altogether because the quake had rendered the land dangerously unstable. Among the structuresslatedfor demolition was the city’s venerable Victorian-era Anglican cathedral. Up to 50,000 residents moved permanently to other locations in New Zealand or to...
(1990) explores the lives of nine historical characters, such asJohn Wilkes Booth, who either assassinated U.S. presidents or attempted to do so. Later Sondheim works includeBounce(2003; retitledRoad Showin 2008), about the colourful adventures of a pair of early 20th-century American...
The Importance of Being Earnest, play in three acts byOscar Wilde, performed in 1895 and published in 1899. Asatireof Victorian socialhypocrisy, the witty play is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement. Jack Worthing is a fashionable young man who lives in the country with his ward,...