| Farfetched Fables | |
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| Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
| Date premiered | January 13, 1951 |
| Place premiered | Watergate Theatre, London, September 6, 1950 (private) People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, January 13, 1951 (public) |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | Characters discuss ideas for a utopian future |
| Genre | polemic |
| Setting | various phases from the present to the far future |
Farfetched Fables (1948) is a collection of six short plays by George Bernard Shaw in which he outlines several of his most idiosyncratic personal ideas. The fables are preceded by a long preface. The ideas in the plays and the preface have been called the "violent unabashed prejudices of an eccentric".[1]
- ^ Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1956, p.576.