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Tarleton, in Misalliance The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972)Alfred Doolittle, in Pygmalion a member of the Caravan of the Curious, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)a naturalist, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)Anderson, in The Devil's Disciple The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971)

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. First published in Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and His Art (1920). "From the Point of View of the Playwright," The Drama Observed , ed. Bernard F. Dukore, Penn State Press (1993).

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