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Paradise Found: Or, the Superman Found Out, in Three Acts
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112 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1915
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Allen Upward
105 books5 followersAllen Upward was a Dublin-born poet, lawyer, politician, teacher and writer.
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April 5, 2016
A satirical play in three acts performed in 1915 and subtitled 'The Superman Found Out', George Bernard Shaw awakens from an enchanted sleep two hundred years in the future to discover that he is the idol of the political ruling class, the Fabians.
In this topsy-turvy Leftist future, strikes are constant as no one wants to work more than four hours, Parliament is run by women and a senile Prime Ministress (it could never happen!) and India rules the remains of a shattered Empire, headed by a lusty Maharajah.
Bernard Shaw (alternatively revered as Saint George, or Lloyd George Bernard Shaw) takes umbrage to the way his work has been misrepresented, finds himself twice married to a couple of rabid worshippers, and tries to start a revolution amongst the Comrades to overturn his own influence.
A fun idea, but pretty thin on any decent jokes. I would quote a line or two but none really stuck out.
The funniest idea was the mistaken identity applied to various statues used as props, e.g. Venus de Milo is thought to be the first Suffragette, Saint George and the Dragon is Bernard Shaw slaying Capitalism, a Highlander is the Chief Boy Scout etc.
I don't know much about Allen Upward apart from the fact that he obviously didn't think much of George Bernard Shaw but was friendly with that anti-semitic lunatic Ezra Pound, which can't have been a good thing.
In this topsy-turvy Leftist future, strikes are constant as no one wants to work more than four hours, Parliament is run by women and a senile Prime Ministress (it could never happen!) and India rules the remains of a shattered Empire, headed by a lusty Maharajah.
Bernard Shaw (alternatively revered as Saint George, or Lloyd George Bernard Shaw) takes umbrage to the way his work has been misrepresented, finds himself twice married to a couple of rabid worshippers, and tries to start a revolution amongst the Comrades to overturn his own influence.
A fun idea, but pretty thin on any decent jokes. I would quote a line or two but none really stuck out.
The funniest idea was the mistaken identity applied to various statues used as props, e.g. Venus de Milo is thought to be the first Suffragette, Saint George and the Dragon is Bernard Shaw slaying Capitalism, a Highlander is the Chief Boy Scout etc.
I don't know much about Allen Upward apart from the fact that he obviously didn't think much of George Bernard Shaw but was friendly with that anti-semitic lunatic Ezra Pound, which can't have been a good thing.
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