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bardiphoukaSardoodledom A play with an overly contrived and melodramatic plot.
This is actually a coinage that we can track. It was invented by GB Shaw in a review of a play which, you can guess, he was less than fond of. The meaning apparently has grown to include anything which is well written for pure entertainment but has no ethical or moral value. Nor intellectual content. And just think, TV has not even been invented when Shaw coined the perfect definition of it.
This is actually a coinage that we can track. It was invented by GB Shaw in a review of a play which, you can guess, he was less than fond of. The meaning apparently has grown to include anything which is well written for pure entertainment but has no ethical or moral value. Nor intellectual content. And just think, TV has not even been invented when Shaw coined the perfect definition of it.
