Character · Man and Superman · George Bernard Shaw

TANNER

1 monologue indexed — plays provocation.

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Monologues

TANNER

Quite unscrupulous. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire.

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What TANNER wants

To open the poet's eyes before the woman devours him.He's realized the woman everyone thinks is sweet is in fact a relentless force of nature hunting a husband.