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Great Catherine

Bernard Shaw

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .His coat, encrusted with diamonds, is on the floor. It has fallen off a chair placed near the other end of the table for the convenience of visitors. His court sword, with its attachments, is on the chair. His three-cornered hat, also bejewelled, is on the table. He himself is half dressed in an unfastened shirt and an immense dressing-gown, once gorgeous, now food-splashed and dirty, as it serves him for towel, handkerchief, duster, and every other use to which a textile fabric can be put by a slovenly man. It does not conceal his huge hairy chest, nor his half-buttoned knee breeches, nor his legs. These are partly clad in silk stockings, which he occasionally hitches up to his knees, and presently shakes down to his shins, by his restless movement. His feet are thrust into enormous slippers, worth, with their crust of jewels, several thousand roubles apiece.

Superficially Patiomkin is a violent, brutal barbarian, an upstart despot of the most intolerable and . . . Read More

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4.00
- Hesham - Jan 18, 2021

مسرحية كاترين العظمى للكاتب الإيرلندي جورج برنارد شو، كتبها عام 1913. وهي مسرحية قصيرة ولا تعد من مسرحيات شو الهامة. ويوضح شو في مقدمة المسرحية إنه لم يهدف أبدا من كتابة تلك المسرحية إلى التصوير التاريخى وانها "سوف تترك القارئ جاهلاً بالتاريخ الروسي مثلما يحتمل أن يكون حاله الآن قبل أن يقلب الصفحة"!

4.00
- Jim - Mar 26, 2012

A delightful short play about the visit of a very proper English officer to the court of Catherine the Great. The latter engages in some amusing love play with the captain (whose fiancée is with him in St. Petersburg), then moves on to other things as her imperial prerogative dictates.

2.00
- Rw - Mar 23, 2012

Shaw was such a magnificent writer, but in this play, I just didn't get the message. What was he trying to say in this very short play?

4.00
- Mac - Mar 12, 2019

Shaw's "Great Catherine" is a short play that depicts a meeting between Catherine the Great of Russia and an English soldier. There are some funny characters and moments. The most memorable thing for me was when Catherine tortures the poor Englishman... by tickling his feet. Overall, it brings to mi

3.00
- Dr.J.G. - Feb 05, 2016

Shaw is no worshiper of great persona of history, and The Great Catherine of Russia does not escape his caricature. She is shown here as a barbaric ruler of a barbaric huge powerful nation, charmed by sophistication of a mere lowly officer of the British embassy in her empire.

Every caricature has s

3.00
- Rupertt - Aug 25, 2015

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