Shaw and The horns of a Dilemma

The Shaw Society invites you to this FREE zoom lecture given by Dr Philip Wilson of the University of East Anglia.

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This lecture forms the second half of The Shaw Society's 5th annual Shaw Crawl.

If you can't make it to London for our popular annual walk round Shaw's London - join us instead online  - live from the heart of Bloomsbury. This year's theme is Morality and Immorality. Dr Philip Wilson will explore Shavian dramatic dilemmas with a focus on Major Barbara. Actor Alexis Leighton star of Mrs Shaw Herself  and Not Bloody Likely will will read extracts.

'Drama often works through the dilemma. To be or not to be? This lecture places George Bernard Shaw & Major Barbara into dialogue with some philosophical dilemmas and asks if Simone Weil may not be right in saying that contradiction is at the heart of philosophy'