Heartbreak House (Penguin Classics)
by George Bernard Shaw
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Read in May, 2007
I just love Shaw. I love his crazy long prologues that are often even longer than his plays. I love his stage directions that take up an entire page. I love his wit and his feminist-celibate-vegetarian-tee-totelling-self. It's difficult in comedy, especially domestic comedy, to really be able to make you think above the humor, if that makes any sense. But Shaw does. His characters are nutty, but their stories bring up such important issues that you find yourself considering your own though...more
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Some cannot abide Shaw's pedantic and eternal dialogue, and while I see the inherent weaknesses of it, I confess a fondness for his verbose Britishisms. Heartbreak house is a marvelous parody of early twentieth century English society.
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"Heartbreak House" is my pick as Shaw's greatest. He used Chekov as a model and lets his soul flow. He's lamenting as well as mocking the times he lived in and that makes for true theatrical greatness.
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