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John Bull의 다른 섬(Other Island)은 아일랜드에 관한 코미디로 George Bernard Shaw가 1904년에 썼습니다. Shaw 자신은 더블린에서 태어났지만 이 작품은 그가 주제에 따라 고국으로 돌아온 단 두 편의 희곡 중 하나이며, 다른 하나는 O'Flaherty V.C.입니다. 이 연극은 당시에는 큰 성공을 거두었지만 거의 재연되지 않았습니다. 아마도 대화의 대부분이 당시의 정치와 관련되어 있기 때문일 것입니다.
<A classic read in English_ John Bull’s Other Island by Bernard Shaw >
John Bull's Other Island is a comedy about Ireland, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1904. Shaw himself was born in Dublin, yet this is one of only two plays of his where he thematically returned to his homeland, the other being O'Flaherty V.C. The play was highly successful in its day, but is rarely revived, probably because so much of the dialogue is specific to the politics of the day.
Summary
The play deals with Larry Doyle, originally from Ireland, who has adopted English cultural customs and manners to find his place in England and Tom Broadbent, his English business partner. They are civil engineers who run a firm in London. They go to Roscullen, where Doyle was born, to develop some land.
Doyle has no illusions about Ireland while Broadbent is taken with the romance of the place. Broadbent, a lively man who is seemingly not always aware of the impression he makes, becomes a favourite of the people. Before the play is over, it is clear he will marry Nora Reilly, the woman waiting for Doyle (who is more than happy to let her go) and become the area's candidate for Parliament after Doyle refuses to stand. Doyle has also 'called in' all his loans given "so easily" to the locals against their homes and intends (as he had planned all along) to make the village into an amusement park.
