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Unit3 Why do we believe that the earth is round? Before reading Before reading Literature Giant Genre（流派）:Realism Focus : nearly all his writings deal with prevailing（最普遍的）social problems (education, marriage, religion, government, healthcare and class privilege) The play Mrs. Warren’s Profession was called by the writer himself “Plays Unpleasant”. Unpleasant they were to the bourgeois（中产阶级）public, because G. B. Shaw attacked in them the vices（恶行） of capitalist society资本主义社会. St. Joan (1923) is the only tragedy by Bernard Shaw . It is not only a tragedy but a historical play. What this