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Books with title Androcles and the Lion: A Fable Play

  • Androcles and the Lion

    Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (Penguin, Jan. 1, 1964)
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  • Androcles and the Lion

    Janine Scott

    Paperback (Shortland Publications, Jan. 1, 2001)
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  • Androcles & the Lion

    Catherine Storr, Bernard Shaw, Philip Hood

    Paperback (Heinemann/Raintree, )
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  • Androcles and the Lion: A Fable Play

    Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Feb. 2, 2018)
    Excerpt from Androcles and the Lion: A Fable PlayAndrocles. He cant always help it, clear. You make me think of you a good deal. Not that I blame you.Megaera. Blame me! I should think not indeed. Is it my fault that I'm married to you?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Androcles and the Lion

    George Bernard Shaw

    eBook (Interactive Media, Aug. 17, 2018)
    Androcles, a fugitive Christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the run from his Roman persecutors. While hiding in the forest he comes upon a wild lion who approaches him with a wounded paw. His wife runs off. Androcles sees that the cause of the animal's distress is a large thorn embedded in its paw, which he draws out while soothing the lion in baby language.
  • THE LION AND THE RAT. A Fable

    Jean De la Fontaine

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts, Inc, March 15, 1963)
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  • Androcles and the Lion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Hardcover (Blurb, April 29, 2019)
    Androcles is the main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne-Thompson classification system as type 156. The story reappeared in the Middle Ages as "The Shepherd and the Lion" and was then ascribed to Aesop's Fables. It is numbered 563 in the Perry Index and can be compared to Aesop's The Lion and the Mouse in both its general trend and in its moral of the reciprocal nature of mercy. George Bernard Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion (1912) makes Androcles a tailor; he is also given Christian beliefs for the purposes of the play, which on the whole takes a skeptical view of religion. The first film adaptation of the story in the US was also made in 1912. Afterwards there were several others for both cinema and TV. Rob Englehart's The Lion, the Slave and the Rodent (2010) was a much later American approach to the fable. A one-act chamber opera for five voices, it combined the story of Androcles with the fable of "The Lion and the Mouse".
  • Androcles and the Lion

    Bernard Shaw

    Hardcover (Penguin, March 15, 1962)
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  • Androcles And The Lion

    Shaw. B

    Hardcover (Constable and Co Limited, March 15, 1929)
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  • Androcles and the Lion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 14, 2018)
    George Bernard Shaw was an Irish writer who is considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Shaw's first major success was Arms and the Man, written in 1894, and he would go on to write other classics including Pygmalion, Major Barbara, and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Androcles and the Lion is a play that tells the story of a slave who is saved by the mercy of a lion.
  • Androcles And The Lion

    Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (Loki's Publishing, Aug. 30, 2017)
    Androcles And The Lion (Large Print) By Bernard Shaw
  • Androcles and the Lion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Paperback (Independently published, Aug. 29, 2019)
    Famed playwright George Bernard Shaw's quirky version of the ancient Androcles fable deftly combines elements of satire and humor along with a surprisingly philosophically complex view of Christianity and religious belief systems in general. This playful take on the issues of persecution and martyrdom is as timely today as it was when initially published a century ago.