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Shaw believed that imagination is essential to any campaign to create a better world. Barbara Undershaft uses her ability to “dream things that never were” to find meaningful work with the downtrodden clients at a Salvation Army shelter. Unfortunately for Barbara, the people who love her don’t have the same gift for imagining: In 1905, when Shaw wrote Major Barbara, feminism was far in the horizon. Nevertheless, Major Barbara offers hints about a promising future for Barbara after she leaves the Salvation Army.
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Reynolds, J. (2022). The Power of Imagination. In: Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96071-1_3
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