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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | January 4, 1947 issue

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It has often been objected by the more serious-minded that dramatist George Bernard Shaw's prefaces make his plays unnecessary. In the case of "Androcles and the Lion" he outdid even himself, for never bee fore has a mountain of earnestness brought forth a friskier mouse. Perhaps the best way to take the play is to forget the intolerable burden of preliminary lucubrations and to accept it for what' it is-a joyously irresponsible little farce entirely appropriate to the Christmas season, when even adults traditionally attempt, with greater or less success, a return to a happier childish world.

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ANDROCLES & the Lion (Theatrical production); DRAMATISTS; SHAW, Bernard, 1856-1950; CHILDREN'S plays; AUTHORS; PERFORMING arts
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