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Title: Androcles and the Lion (Raintree Stories Series) by Catherine Storr, Philip Hood, Bernard Androcles and the Lion Shaw, George Bernard Shaw ISBN: 0-8172-2625-7 Publisher: Raintree/Steck Vaughn Pub. Date: October, 1987 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.97

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Read the whole book!!!
Comment: Do not be tempted to pass over the essay that begins this book. It is a delightfully thought provoking essay that sets up the story of the play. Shaw writes of his views of organized religon with support for his thesis. It is important to read this before diving into the play itself.

The play is wonderful, but the theater program must be 200 pages long. You need all the 111 pages before the play to get all of the meanings of the play.

Rating: 4
Summary: The Folly of Martydom
Comment: To prick a thorn out of a lion's foot one will surely gain new friends and old enemies. The story of Androcles, a Christian who is about to be sent to the lions for being a heretic in the Roman Empire. A cynical, humerous, poignant, and hypocritical story of religion versus humanism. The book is intended with the introduction with Shaw's discourse on Jesus and Christianity. Although I found it dryly written, which some wit involved, he makes some good remarks on the problems of Christianity. Mainly is the devout in which they will surely go to the lions before giving up their gods. Hypocritically the Romans could care less who their gods were or whether they believed in them, so long it was not a Christian god. The introduction acts as a set-up to put one in the mind set of Shaw and to understand his point of view which makes the play that much easier to understand and funnier to read. The play itself is a wonderful entry into the classics of the thearter.

Rating: 4
Summary: A Pleasant Fable
Comment: Androcles and the Lion is an allegorical work which points out that kindness is not necessarity altruistic - it can be of worth. Shaw's writing is brilliant and well worth the reading.