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... social - revolutionary themes of Shaw ( particularly in such plays as Too True to be Good ) although the witty Irishman had previously learned much about the comedy of manners from Wilde , and gave impetus to Somerset Maugham's ...
... social - revolutionary themes of Shaw ( particularly in such plays as Too True to be Good ) although the witty Irishman had previously learned much about the comedy of manners from Wilde , and gave impetus to Somerset Maugham's ...
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... social themes ; Nowaczyński , with his social and political satires . The general tendency in the post - War Polish drama had been the treatment of current social or political prob- lems against an earlier historical background for the ...
... social themes ; Nowaczyński , with his social and political satires . The general tendency in the post - War Polish drama had been the treatment of current social or political prob- lems against an earlier historical background for the ...
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... social problems , such as Squaring the Circle and Fear . Gorky , in Yegor Bulitchev and Others and Dostigaev and ... social . Plays embodying a philosophy of civilization . Ibsen was probably the first great social dramatist . In his ...
... social problems , such as Squaring the Circle and Fear . Gorky , in Yegor Bulitchev and Others and Dostigaev and ... social . Plays embodying a philosophy of civilization . Ibsen was probably the first great social dramatist . In his ...
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