In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama，in Back to Methuselah (1921)，although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923)，in which he rewrites the well­known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.

　　Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)，and the Lion (1912)．In Major Barbara (1905)，one of Shaw's most successful discussion plays，the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity，not as an individual.The Doctor's Dilemma (1906)，is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession.Candida (1898)，with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire，and Pygmalion (1912)，a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle­class morality and class distinction，proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage.It is a combination of the dramatic，the comic，and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour.

　　Notes：

　　critic n．评论家　②hypocrisy n．伪善　③aesthetic salvation审美救赎

　　长短句分析：After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876)，where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic (评论家) in the eighties and nineties.

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