BDeBooks
Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw, book cover
Satire PDF EPUB

Getting Married

by George Bernard Shaw

Downloads
Under 100
First published
1911
Pages
201
Download

About this book

On what should be their wedding morning, a bride and groom each read a pamphlet spelling out exactly what English marriage law commits them to, and both balk at signing their lives away. As relatives, clergy, and assorted opinionated guests fill the house, the ceremony stalls into a long, lively argument about divorce, property, fidelity, and whether marriage as an institution can be reformed at all. Shaw wrote the piece as a single continuous conversation with no act breaks, trusting the talk itself to carry the drama. It is a comedy of ideas more than of plot, sharp on the gap between romantic feeling and legal contract. First performed in 1908, it still provokes.

Contents

About the author

George Bernard Shaw - BDeBooks
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and socialist polemicist who became the leading English-language dramatist of his era. A co-founder of the Fabian Society, he used comedy to attack social hypocrisy and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

More by George Bernard Shaw

See all 17 books

More from this genre

See all

Reviews and discussion

No ratings yet. Be the first reader to rate this book.

Rate this book

Pick a star, then sign in. Only readers who confirmed their email can rate.

No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.

Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy

Read or download

Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.

No download needed. Text reader: adjustable size, font and theme.
  • EPUB 354 KB Best for iPhone, Android, Kobo and tablets
  • KINDLE Send to Kindle Kindle devices and the Kindle app. Uses the same EPUB file. Send
    1. Download the EPUB file to this device.
    2. Open Amazon's Send to Kindle page, sign in, and add the file. Open Send to Kindle (opens in a new tab)

    On a phone: open the downloaded EPUB and share it to the Kindle app.

    You can also email the file to your Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com) from an email address you approved in your Amazon account.

  • PDF 864 KB Best for computers, laptops and printing

Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone

Book facts

First published
1911
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
201
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online