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On a January evening in 1906, Stephen Undershaft joins his mother, Lady Britomart in the library. The overbearing mother wants to ask her son for advice on a sensitive matter. She worries that neither of his sisters’ fiancées have enough money to support them. Sarah ’s fiancée, Charles Lomax, will be wealthy someday, but until he comes ...
Major Barbara. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft's house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart's writing table, with the lady herself ...
Major Barbara is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1905. Set in the decade before World War I, the play explores the battle of wits between a wealthy arms manufacturer, Andrew Undershaft, and his daughter, Barbara, who is a Major in the Salvation Army. While Undershaft is a ruthless businessman, unprincipled and willing to do anything to ...
Major Barbara Summary. Lady Britomart summons her son, Stephen Undershaft, to the library to discuss a family crisis. Stephen’s sisters Sarah and Barbara are both engaged to men who are too poor to support the lifestyles Lady Britomart believes they deserve. The only answer is to ask their father, her estranged husband Andrew Undershaft, for ...
Major Barbara Summary. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous. The play begins in the household of Lady Britomart. She discusses with her son, Stephen how to supply her daughter Sarah, who is ...
Plot Summary. Premiering in 1905, George Bernard Shaw’s play Major Barbara follows a privileged and idealistic young woman serving in the Salvation Army, who is disillusioned by how her wealthy father treats impoverished Londoners. A commercial success, screenwriters adapted the play into a 1940s movie. An Irish playwright, political activist ...
George Bernard Shaw was born Protestant in a predominantly Catholic Dublin in 1856. When Shaw was sixteen, his mother, an accomplished singer, left Ireland to escape her husband's alcoholism and follow her singing teacher to London. Shaw remained to complete his education but, finding his schooling largely inadequate, soon began to pursue his ...
