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BUOYANT BILLIONS, FARFETCHED FABLES & SHAKES VERSUS SHAV (138 pp.)-George Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead...
...ease, from drama to politics and back, followed by the spotlight he loved and accompanied by the rolling drums of Shavian wit-which sometimes would be mistaken for the thunder of truth. But in his last three plays, now published in the U.S.-Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, Shakes Versus Shav-the great performer, by 93, was plainly coming to the end of his long career under...
Perhaps the best fun among his last plays comes out of Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play in which he restates his half-serious, half-mocking claim to being the Shakespeare of his own day. After Shakes and Shav have knocked each other down, argued about Sir Walter Scott and debated the relative merits of their own plays ("Couldst thou write King Lear...
Highlands, (right guard) Shav...