Back to Methuselah
A Plays, Theatre, Classics book. I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never...
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch, by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (An Infidel Half Century) & a series of five plays: In the Beginning: BC 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: AD 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: AD 3000, & As Far as Thought Can Reach: AD 31,920. All were written during 1918-20, published simultaneously by Constable (London) & Brentano's (NY) in 1921, & 1st performed in the USA in 1922 by the NY Theatre Guild at the old Garrick Theatre &, in Britain, at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1923.
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One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism. Shaw's Preface George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah // I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah // You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not? George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah //
Bernard Shaw explores the psychological consequences of immortality in a series of 5 plays that dramatize the evolution of humanity:In the Beginning (B.C. 4004), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas (Present Day), The Thing Happens (A.D. 2170), Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman (A.D. 3000), As Far as Thought Can Reach (A.D. 31,920). Open minded Christians The evolution of humanity played out on stage23 July 2011 This play is my favourite Bernard Shaw play next to Pygmalion, and having been written in the early twenties, it not only shows some more maturity in the playwriting, but also explores a topic that was believed to be dead after World War I: the concept of Human Enlightenment....
