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britneyshakespeare · 2 months ago

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If I learned one thing from reading Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw it's that if I ever feel inclined to suffer through one of his plays again I'm going to opt for watching it, because it does not stand up to the labor of reading

#maybe my mind will change someday. like i said ive been interested in saint joan. and pygmalion #but ill have to read schiller's joan of arc play first because what's that? a play about joan of arc from a playwright i actually like?#tales from diana #im so negative but this reading experience was objectively not fun at all #it largely comes down to the fact that his style does not really pique my interest but i do have some less subjective critiques too #like his writing of women. no.#not to say i don't really like any literature that i can also critique for its portrayal of women #plenty of great poets have been misogynists and ive read and even complicatedly enjoyed their works #shaw suffers from a lack of style AND substance. and he thinks he can make up for it by addressing Big Ideas #if there's something that just doesn't impress me so much anymore as an adult that ill never reach out for it to read by my lonesome #it's the Big Ideas or boring white men #ive been too steeped in them in my literary and academic career. and so many of them are just such fart-smellers #would love it if someone told me that just major barbara suffers from this and that his other works are Actually Interesting

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