George Bernard Shaw’s play, Major Barbara, and the theme of theater and activism.
Prepare a biographical material, contextual material about the author/era/setting of text, reviews of the primary text, from the time period of publication/performance, and a range of scholarly analyses of the playwright/text. You may also include specific source material on the social activism of the era that influenced the play/playwright (AND the influence of the playwright on the era, etc.). Books/e-books, database articles/films/documentaries, etc..
This paper should include the close reading of Shaw’s play, Major Barbara, and its activism, the year it was written, the connection to the Salvation Army and other social movements of the era. The paper combines a close reading of the play’s three acts, commentary on the film version Shaw wrote the screenplay for (and which was filmed during the Blitz in WWII).
