MAJOR BARBARA by George Bernard Shaw
Shaw is a Vesuvius of eloquent rhetoric. But his ideas are borrowed, chiefly from Nietzsche, Ibsen, Marx, Darwin, Wagner and William Blake. A grand proselytizer, he was to those men what St. Paul was to Christ.
Though a professed atheist, Shaw was possessed by an evangelical passion. He was convinced that if spiritual power could be harnessed to material power, man would be transformed into a higher order of being. That is at the core of Major Barbara, which is being given a top-notch revival at Manhattan's Circle in...
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