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Whitefield, her mother, a little woman certainly devoid of such vitality, one who wears an expression of muddled shrewdness. Dec 18, 20 arms and the man is a comedy by george bernard shaw that takes place in 1885, during the serbobulgarian war. Oct 23, 2000 shaw began writing man and superman in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new centurys intellectual inheritance. Man and superman is george bernard shaw s response to the request of his fans to write a don juan themed play.
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