Androcles and the Lion by Bernard Shaw
"Androcles and the Lion" by Bernard Shaw is a play written in 1912. It retells the ancient fable of a Christian slave who removes a thorn from a lion's paw. When Androcles is later sentenced to die in the Roman Colosseum, he faces the same grateful lion in the arena. Shaw crafted this work as a response to religious melodramas and children's plays he found lacking, blending humor, faith, and unexpected mercy
into a tale of compassion rewarded. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 |
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| Title | Androcles and the Lion |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androcles_and_the_Lion_(play) |
| Credits | Eve Sobol. HTML version by Al Haines |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 84.4 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | English drama (Comedy) |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 4003 |
| Release Date | May 1, 2003 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 22, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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