One play by this author features a man with "all the nations of the old world at war in his veins" arrivingto sort out the plot in the final act; that character created by him is the American naval ca
One play by this author features a man with "all the nations of the old world at war in his veins" arrivingto sort out the plot in the final act; that character created by him is the American naval captain HamlinKearney. This author wrote a play that includes a Moroccan sheikh who kills Christians until stopped bythe lady-explorer Cicely Waynflete and the crusty title guide. In another play by this man, Essie is invitedto stay in the new home of a man that Judith Anderson hates, after uncle Peter is hanged, and Westerbridge,New Hampshire is sent into a tizzy when Dick Dudgeon is sentenced to death. In another play by him, achain of murders leads to the death of Pothinus and then, at the hands of Rufio, Ftatateeta, after one titlecharacter finds the other between the paws of the Sphinx and then in a rolled-up carpet. This author ofCaptain Brassbound's Conversion included John Burgoyne as an antagonist in his The Devil's Disciple;those two dramas, along with Caesar and Cleopatra, make up his Three Plays for Puritans. For 10 points,name this playwright of Man and Superman and Pygmalion.
One play by this author features a man with "all the nations of the old world at war in his veins" arrivingto sort out the plot in the final act; that character created by him is the American naval captain HamlinKearney.
George Bernard Shaw [or GBS]