This author of a "tragedy without villains" about the posthumous canonization of a Frenchwoman also wrote a play where Ann Whitefield manages to win over Jack Tanner, a modern adaptation of Don Juan also meant to invoke Nietzsche's ubermensch.
One of this author's characters has a head so "polished" that "on a sunshiny day, he could heliograph his orders to distant camps just by nodding"; that man is co-responsible for a girl who would "commit every crime a respectable woman can" and "justify every one of them by saying that it was the wish of her guardians." One of this author's protagonists asks, "You think that life is nothing but not being dead?" and later asks, "How long, (*) O Lord, how long?" until the world is ready to accept its saints. This author of a "tragedy without villains" about the posthumous canonization of a Frenchwoman also wrote a play where Ann Whitefield manages to win over Jack Tanner, a modern adaptation of Don Juan also meant to invoke Nietzsche's ubermensch. For 10 points, name this British author of Saint Joan and Man and Superman.
One of this author's characters has a head so "polished" that "on a sunshiny day, he could heliograph his orders to distant camps just by nodding"; that man is co-responsible for a girl who would "commit every crime a respectable woman can" and "justify every one of them by saying that it was the wish of her guardians.
George Bernard Shaw