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Augustus Does His Bit
Bernard Shaw
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THE CLERK. What did you expect? You told them our gallant fellows is falling at the rate of a thousand a day in the big push. Dying for Little Pifflington, you says. Come and take their places, you says. That ain't the way to recruit.
AUGUSTUS. But I expressly told them their widows would have pensions.
THE CLERK. I heard you. Would have been all right if it had been the widows you wanted to get round.
AUGUSTUS [rising angrily]. This town is inhabited by dastards. I say it with a full sense of responsibility, DASTARDS! They call themselves Englishmen; and they are afraid to fight.
THE CLERK. Afraid to fight! You should see them on a Saturday night.
AUGUSTUS. Yes, they fight one another; but they won't fight the Germans.
THE CLERK. They got grudges again one another: how can they have grudges again the Huns that they never saw? They've no imagination: . . . Read More
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Characters within play:
1. Lord Augustus Highcastle (aka Gus)
2. The Clark: Mr Horatio Floyd Beamish
3. A Lady
Characters mentioned (but do not make an appearance)
1. Lord Hungerford Highcastle (aka Blueloo, Gus's brother)
2. The Honorable Lucy Popham (Gus's fiance)
Location: Mayor's parlour in the Town Ha
Bernard Shaw makes fun of a patriotic army officer named Augustus. He's a nice interesting character. Next to him is an old secretary who is pissed off and is making fun of Officer Augustus. Then, a woman appears in the middle of the scene. Eventually we realized it was a joke. Bernard Shaw, in his
"Augustus Does His Bit" is a hilarious short play set during World War I. The title character is a British aristocrat who is serving on the home front during the war. He "does his bit" for the war most incompetently. I was reminded at times of the milieu of the movie "The Life and Death of Colonel B
Augustus Does His Bit:-
Only Mr. Shaw could do this - live during harrowing, exciting, uncertain times when future seemed brilliant one moment and bleak another, when a huge war was complicated by a revolution in a huge, huge nations sprawled across eastern half of Europe and all of north Asia, when
Only Mr. Shaw could do this - live during harrowing, exciting, uncertain times when future seemed brilliant one moment and bleak another, when a huge war was complicated by a revolution in a huge, huge nations sprawled across eastern half of Europe and all of north Asia, when kingdoms fell down and
A short and funny tale.
I liked the wit of The Clerk and the sharpness of 'The Lady', and Augustus is the centre figure fool.
A very nice short read.