Who wrote the play 'Major Barbara' in 1905?
Major Barbara play in a more contemporary context, away from the immediate historical context of its original period. Major Barbara Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends
Major Barbara Shaw's use of classical literary sources, such as "The Bacchae", in "Major Barbara". In his discussion of the play, Robert J Jordan has analysed the relationship between "Major Barbara" and another Shaw play, "Man and Superman". Joseph Frank has examined parallels between the play and the "Divine Comedy" of Dante. J.L. Wiesenthal has discussed parallels with the play and Shaw's personal interpretations of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen". Charles Berst has studied the convictions of Andrew Undershaft in the play, and compared them with Shaw's own philosophical ideas. Robert Everding has discussed the gradual presentation of the ideas and