Cosmic Poetic Vision

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw summary

Act 1 The action begins at 11:15 p.m. in a heavy summer rainstorm. An after-theatre crowd takes shelter in the portico of St. Paul's Church in Covent Garden. A young girl, Clara Eynsford Hill, and her mother are waiting for Clara's brother Freddy, who looks in vain for an available cab. Colliding into flower peddler Eliza Doolittle, Freddy s…

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne summary

The title Look Back in Anger refers to the frustrated and unpleasant life of the central character, Jimmy Porter. He is well educated and married from an esteemed family, but still struggles emotionally to meet the both ends in his life. Jimmy is highly disturbed and exasperated by the lack of future he sees in economically depressed England. He expre…

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett detailed summary

One evening, while sitting on a low mound near a bare tree beside a country road, Estragon tries unsuccessfully to remove his boot. When his friend Vladimir enters, he gives up pulling the boot, remarking that there is “nothing to be done.” He broods briefly about having “resumed the struggle.” He is, he says, glad to see Estragon again, having beli…