In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

* Androcles and the Lion ( 1912 )

The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion ( play ) | Androcles and the Lion, 1962.

* Androcles and the Lion ( 1952 )

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw.

The Shaw Alphabet Edition of Androcles and the Lion, 1962.

A film version, Androcles and the Lion was made of the play in 1952, produced by Gabriel Pascal.

* Androcles and the Lion ( 1946 ) — play revival — incidental music composer

She has appeared in a number of stage plays, including Androcles and the Lion, Much Ado About Nothing and The Comedy of Errors.

" He was not afraid to take on the classics in television performances of Androcles and the Lion and the School for Wives ( 1956 ).

* Androcles and the Lion ( 1952 )

A poster from the Federal Theatre Project production of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, 1937

George Bernard Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion ( 1912 ) makes Androcles a tailor and so keeps him as part of the underclass ; he is also given Christian beliefs for the purposes of the play, which on the whole takes a skeptical view of religion.

Also premiered during that time was George Bernard Shaw ’ s Androcles and the Lion in 1913.

* Androcles and the Lion ( 1952 )

After its cancellation, Young appeared in films, including Androcles and the Lion ( 1952 ).

Munro, Mark Ingestire in Sweeney Todd by Dibdin Pitt, the poet in The Lost Silk Hat by Lord Dunsany, the Captain in Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw, Mister Four and Young Man in The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice, Don Juan in the play of the same title by James Elroy Flecker, two parts in Terence Gray's own play The Red Nights of the Tcheka, the Stage Manager in The Player Queen, also by W. B. Yeats, the Second Engineer in The Insect Play by the Čapek brothers, Prince Kamose in another Gray play called And in the Tomb, and finally in June 1927 Don Pelegari in Pirandello's Each In His Own Way.

* Androcles and the Lion ( 1952 )

In September 1929, she joined the Old Vic company, then led by Harcourt Williams, and in the following eight months played Béline in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid, Queen Elizabeth in George Bernard Shaw's The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Lavinia in Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.

The latter source gives the sons ' names as Androcles, Chrysippus, Iocastus, Phalacrus, Pheraemon, Xuthus, and the daughters ' as Aeole, Astycrateia, Dia, Hephaestia, Iphthe, Periboea ; their mother in this account is Telepora or Telepatra, daughter of Laestrygon.

One story is the fable of Androcles, which is often included in compilations of Aesop's fables, but was not originally from that source.

Androcles ( or Androclus ), is the name given by some sources to the main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne-Thompson classification system as type 156.

In this version, Androcles is given the Latin name of Androclus, a runaway slave of a former Roman consul administering a part of Africa.

Androcles takes the Saint-Avit role and tries to murder Hercules, who ( unsurprisingly ) is able to resist Antinea's wiles and eventually saves the day.

Hardy was born in London and educated at Lancing College, where his contemporaries included Christopher Hampton and Tim Rice ( who made notable appearances as, respectively, Caesar in Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion and Elvis Presley in a school rag concert ).

After Shaw's death in 1950 Pascal went on to produce one more Shaw film, the 1952 version of Androcles and the Lion.

She also played Lavinia in George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion with the rehearsals under the supervision of the author himself.

She has also enjoyed success as a theatre director, including several notable productions at the Shaw Festival in Canada, where she now lives, such as Noël Coward's Private Lives and Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and Pygmalion.

After his service he appeared on Broadway as the Duke of Buckingham in Henry VIII, John Shand in J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows and as the Captain in George Bernard Shaw's, Androcles and the Lion.

Plutarch explains that Androcles, a political leader, used false witnesses who accused Alcibiades and his friends of mutilating the statues, and of profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Plutarch explains that Androcles, a political leader, used false witnesses who accused Alcibiades and his friends of mutilating the statues, and of profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The Italian-made peplum film Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis ( Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide, 1961 ), directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, drew heavily on the plot and characters of the book, having Queen Antinea capture Hercules and his companion Androcles, and imprisoning them in her red-lined underground palace.

In the West End, he appeared in The Long and the Short and the Tall, The Ginger Man, The Singular Man, Androcles and the Lion, The Showing Up of Blanco Posnet, Purple Dust by Seán O ' Casey, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Joseph Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance and High Society.

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The sons ' names were Agathyrnus, Astyochus, Androcles, Iocastus, Pheraemon, Xuthus, whereas the daughters are not mentioned at all.

The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.

Later his opponents, chief among them being Androcles and Thessalus, Cimon's son, enlisted orators to argue that Alcibiades should set sail as planned and stand trial on his return from the campaign.

In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture.

Later his opponents, chief among them being Androcles and Thessalus, Cimon's son, enlisted orators to argue that Alcibiades should set sail as planned and stand trial on his return from the campaign.

The original Greek name, Andréas, represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the andr-prefix, like Androgeos, Androcles, Andronikos.

* Androcles: Another populist, often satirized in Old Comedy as poor and immoral, he was later influential in exiling Alcibiades.