The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theater. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing both on the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches.
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The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensible guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focussing both on the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches.
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A great companion to reading the works of George Bernard Shaw. It helps to understand the literary techniques singular to the author, the socio-political background of his writings and the themetic structure prevalent throughout all his works. This is truly a necessary companion to reading his work.
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By his seventieth birthday, Bernard Shaw was one of the most famous people in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shortsighted personal aims, outer play, political extravaganza, copyright performance, commission publishing, inner play, hell scene, play publication, woman playwright, struggle between the sexes, modern drama, heavenly twins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bernard Shaw, Collected Plays, New York, Collected Letters, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan, Don Juan, Granville Barker, William Archer, Life Force, Don Giovanni, Getting Married, Warren's Profession, Elizabeth Robins, New Women, Sarah Grand, West End, Independent Theatre, Stage Society, Court Theatre, Oscar Wilde, University Park, John Bull's Other Island, Plays Pleasant New!
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- Aristocracies of Fiction: The Idea of Aristocracy in Late-Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Literary Culture (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by Len Platt on page 89, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World by Amanda Claybaugh on page 197, and Back Matter
- Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) by Mary Luckhurst on page 106, and Back Matter
- Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy And Wells (The Nineteenth Century Series) by Christine Devine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Shaun Richards in Back Matter
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