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The Six of Calais : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Six of Calais
''The Six of Calais'' is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw. It was inspired by Auguste Rodin's sculpture ''The Burghers of Calais''. It is a historical comedy about the conflict between Edward III of England and his wife Philippa of Hainault over his plans to punish the leading citizens of Calais for resisting the 1346 siege. ==Conception== Shaw had had a long friendship with the sculptor Auguste Rodin, who had made a portrait bust of the playwright, and had long admired his sculpture of ''The Burghers of Calais''.〔Hare, Marion J., "Rodin, Shaw and the Six of Calais", Shaw Festival Programme, 1995.〕 Rodin himself had once said of Shaw that his obsession with "cold" reason was "modified to vapour by his temperamental shyness and his Irish sense of humor".〔Tehan, Arline Boucher, ''The Gates of Hell'', 2010.〕 The struggle between anger, reason and humour is one of the themes of the play.
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