| Heartbreak House | |
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| Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
| Date premiered | November 1920 |
| Place premiered | Garrick Theatre, New York |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | A dinner party at an eccentric household during World War I |
| Genre | Chekhovian tragicomedy |
| Setting | England, World War I |
Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by Bernard Shaw during the First World War, published in 1919 and first performed in November 1920 at the Garrick Theatre, New York, followed by a West End production the following year.
The play reflects Shaw's disillusion with post-war Britain. It contrasts cultured but self-absorbed and politically irresponsible people on the one hand and aggressive philistines on the other. Heartbreak House contains a self-mocking depiction of Shaw himself in the central character, Captain Shotover.