Two themes drive this 1908 witty drama by one of England's top playwrights as he discusses and makes fun of engagements, marriages, and divorces. The first theme is the educational insufficiency and snobbery of the English, a persistent Shaw theme. One only needs to think of the well-known apt description of the English by another author: only wild dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon-day sun. And one only needs to be reminded of how the English treated the "colonies" in a thoughtless self-interested manner. The second theme is the foolishness associated with relationships and marriages, especially the inability of most people to grow, mature, and sustain a relationship that by nature changes as people become older, and the civil and religious laws associated with marriage. Who, for example, would want a spouse for both better and for worse?
Dr. Israel Drazin is the author of sixteen books, including a series of five volumes on the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, which he co-authors with Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, and a series of four books on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonides, the latest being Maimonides: Reason Above All, published by Gefen Publishing House, www.gefenpublishing.com. The Orthodox Union (OU) and Yeshiva University publish weekly chapters of Drazin and Wagner's latest book Let's Study Onkelos on www.ou.org/torah and on www.yutorah@yutorah.org. Drazin's website is located at: http://booksnthoughts.com.
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