About the Book : Man and Superman
Subtitled as 'A Comedy and a Philosophy, George Bernard Shaw published Man and
Superman in 1903, and it was fully staged in 1915 at the Lyceum Theatre,
Edinburgh. The title comes from Friedrich Nietzches ideas about the Ubermensch
or 'Superman. The plot centers on John Tanner, and Ann Whitefield and her
persistent efforts to make him marry her. Written in a response to a request for
a 'Don Juan play, it is based on his belief in the conflict between man as the
spiritual creator and woman as the guardian of the biological continuity of the
human race. Shaw,