Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
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Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes, a play by Bernard
Shaw, first performed in New York 1920, published there 1919.
It describes the impact of Ellie Dunn, daughter of the idealistic and unworldly Mazzini Dunn, upon the ‘horribly Bohemian’ household of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, with whom she strikes up an alliance: the inmates include beautiful, dominating Hesione Hushabye (determined Ellie shall not marry the ageing business magnate Boss Mangan); her husband, the fantasist Hector Hushabye; her sister, the apparently conventional Lady Utterword; and Lady Utterword's devoted brother-in-law Randall, prototype of the useless artist. Shaw appears to be portraying an aspect of British (or European) civilization (suggested in part by the
Bloomsbury Group, in part by the society portrayed by
Chekhov), about to run on the rocks or blow itself up through lack of direction and lack of grasp of economic reality, but, after various Shavian debates on money, marriage, and morality, the play ends in deep ambiguity: an air raid destroys Boss Mangan, the practical man, who takes refuge in a gravel pit where the Captain stores dynamite, and is greeted with exhilarated rapture by Hesione and Ellie, who with the rest of the household refuse to take shelter, and survive.
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