Unusual autograph quotation from Molière, penned by the important Irish playwright and music critic. Autograph Quotation Signed, "G. Bernard Shaw / 12th May 1916": "Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?" (“What the devil was he doing in that galley?”) written on a pale green autograph album sheet. 6 x 3.5 inches; 15 x 9 cm. Together with an attractive doubleweight 1900 portrait by Elliot & Fry, printed later and partially trimmed.
The celebrated quotation is from Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, where a character invents a fake kidnapping on a Turkish galley to get some cash. It has become something since asked of the result of any incautious maneuver.
Augustin Hamon's survey of Shaw's oeuvre at 60 was published the year before and titled " Bernard Shaw: The 20th Century Molière."
Unusual autograph quotation from Molière, penned by the important Irish playwright and music critic. Autograph Quotation Signed, "G. Bernard Shaw / 12th May 1916": "Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?" (“What the devil was he doing in that galley?”) written on a pale green autograph album sheet. 6 x 3.5 inches; 15 x 9 cm. Together with an attractive doubleweight 1900 portrait by Elliot & Fry, printed later and partially trimmed.
The celebrated quotation is from Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin, where a character invents a fake kidnapping on a Turkish galley to get some cash. It has become something since asked of the result of any incautious maneuver.
Augustin Hamon's survey of Shaw's oeuvre at 60 was published the year before and titled " Bernard Shaw: The 20th Century Molière."