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George Bernard (GB) Shaw
Rome, some time after the death of Christ.
"In this play I have represented one of the Roman persecutions of the early Christians, not as the conflict of a false theology with the true, but, as what all such persecutions essentially are, an attempt to suppress the propaganda that seemed to threaten the interests involved in the established law and order, organized and maintained in the name of religion and justice by politicians." (Preface, 1912) Shaws's retelling of the well-known tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the mercy of a lion.
Plays General
Full-Length
15
2
17
01 September 1913
First presented in English at St James' Theatre, London.
Androcles and the Lion: An Old Fable Renovated
1946
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