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THE ENGLISH DRAMA
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
**"W" AM not an ordinary playwright in general
practice. I am a specialist in immoral and
heretical plays. My reputation has been
-^- gained by my persistent struggle to force
the public to reconsider its morals. In particular,
I regard much current morality as to economic and
sexual relations as disastrously wrong; and I regard
certain doctrines of the Christian religion as under
stood in England to-day with abhorrence. I write
plays with the deliberate object of converting the
nation to my opinions in these matters."
This confession of faith should leave no doubt
as to the place of George Bernard Shaw in modern
dramatic art. Yet, strange to say, he is among the
most doubted of his time. That is partly due to
the fact that humor generally serves merely to
amuse, touching only the lighter side of life. But
there is a kind of humor that fills laughter with
tears, a humor that eats into the soul like acid, leav
ing marks often deeper than those made by the
tragic form.
There is another reason why Shaw s
sincerity is
regarded lightly: it is to be found in the difference
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