Heartbreak House, Shaw carefully explains in his introduction to the play, "is cultured, leisured Europe before the war." To members of the audience who have had the bad luck to miss the ...

A child accused. Everyone left to answer.

Written between 1916 and 1917 as war raged across Europe, Heartbreak House is a telling indictment of the generation responsible for the First World War. With its bold combination of high farce an ...