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Sunday, Feb. 1 at 2:30 p.m.
Asked to explain what “The Apple Cart” is about, the students say that “through the story of a fictional King of England attempting to reassert his power within a constitutional monarchy, Shaw critiques the concepts of democracy and good governance. Written in 1930 and set in the future, Shaw’s satire of world politics is startlingly contemporary.”
Remarks by Shaw in his preface to “The Apple Cart” are likely the same as he would still hold about today’s political scene: “the conflict is . . . between democracy . . . and plutocracy, which ... has bought and swallowed democracy. Money talks: money prints: money broadcasts: money reigns; and kings and labor leaders alike have to register its
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