TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaw,Bernard
TI  - Androcles and the Lion
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English drama (Comedy)
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androcles_and_the_Lion_(play); Release date is 2003-05-01; Eve Sobol. HTML version by Al Haines; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Androcles and the Lion" by Bernard Shaw is a play written in 1912. It retells the ancient fable of a Christian slave who removes a thorn from a lion's paw. When Androcles is later sentenced to die in the Roman Colosseum, he faces the same grateful lion in the arena. Shaw crafted this work as a response to religious melodramas and children's plays he found lacking, blending humor, faith, and unexpected mercy into a tale of compassion rewarded. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4003
ER  -