CPL310 10/6/2004 Holz & Schlaff published a work in German under a pseudonym, a Scandinavian name, because Scandinavian works were popular in Germany then. "The Doctor's Dilmma" -- George Bernard Shaw -- to be or not to be God; cure vs kill -- must doctors serve first come first serve or those most in need or most deserving -- Ridgeon is a doctor looking for a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis -- he knows lots of other doctors each who has a different strategy for treating TB; Sir Patrick is the one who represents practicality -- Blenkinsop is another doctor who treats the poor and doesn't earn much -- Dubedat is an artist who has TB -- Ridgeon has only a little bit of vaccine and must consider whether each patient is worth saving; he'd have to boot one of his existing patients to take on Debedat (R compares thihs to 10 men on a liferaft) -- R invites D and his wife to dinner so he can evaluate them -- D is reveals as a lying cheating man without scruples -- Blenkinsop himself contracts TB so R takes him on as a client and fobs off D on another colleague, Bonington -- D dies, Dr B recovers, and R asks D's wife to marry him; D's wife (Jennifer) has already remarried and thinks R rejected D just so he'd die so he could marry J; J is setting up an art show of D's works -- [friend bet Shaw that he couldn't write a tragedy and this play is it] -- [traditional place for a death scene in a 5-act play is act 4, and Shaw adhered to that] -- George Bernard Shaw born in 1856 in Dublin, died in 1950 in Hertfordshaw -- father was an alcoholic; when Shaw was 10, his father left -- Shaw remained in Ireland but his mother and two sisters went to England -- wrote over 50 plays (even into his 90s)</plaintext><br /></body></html>