
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw · 1905
A Salvation Army officer discovers her charity is funded by her arms-dealer father's profits, and has to decide which one of them is the real hypocrite. Shaw was the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar, and this play shows why: he could make an argument about capitalism feel like a boxing match. The dialogue moves at the speed of thought.
Drama · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.