A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of Shaw's economic practices and theories, augments feminist and postcolonial critiques that preoccupy the study of literary history in the 1990s and provides a long overdue revisionist reading of Shaw for an undergraduate readership. It traces the theatrical and political influences on Shaw from his earliest days in London, tracks his interest in socialism as an activist and author of tracts, novels, and plays emphasizing certain polemical traits, and follows his career as a major literary figure into the mid-twentieth century. The overarching themes of theatre and politics are narrated in relation to attempts by Shaw and his contemporaries to identify an audience and aesthetic for socialist theatre. The bibliographic essay that concludes the book is particularly helpful for student readers who can benefit from a manageably-sized orientation to the mountain of Shavian scholarship.
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“...[Davis's] talent as a researcher has also served this book, and any student examining Shaw has reason to be grateful for her bounteous offering of source material. ...Davis's critical discussion is informative and provocative, moves quickly through an enormously detailed chronology and displays its biases boldly, inviting challenges.”–New England Theatre Journal
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The overarching themes of theatre and politics are narrated in relation to attempts by Shaw and his contemporaries to identify an audience and aesthetic for socialist theatre in this biographically based study of Shaw and his milieu.
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Do not talk of the middle class: the expression is meaningless except when it is used by an economist to denote the man of business who stands in the middle between land and capital on the one hand, and labor on the other, and organizes business for both. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Bernard Shaw, Royal Court, Lady Cicely, Major Barbara, World War, Beatrice Webb, Stage Society, Black Girl, Granville Barker, West End, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, Common Sense, Fabian Tract, William Archer, Courtesy of the Dan, Ellen Terry, Laurence Collection, University of Guelph Library, Elizabeth Robins, Heartbreak House, John Bull's Other Island, Life Force, Saint Joan, The Philanderer New!
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Do not talk of the middle class: the expression is meaningless except when it is used by an economist to denote the man of business who stands in the middle between land and capital on the one hand, and labor on the other, and organizes business for both. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minor plays, theatre movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Bernard Shaw, Royal Court, Lady Cicely, Major Barbara, World War, Beatrice Webb, Stage Society, Black Girl, Granville Barker, West End, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, Common Sense, Fabian Tract, William Archer, Courtesy of the Dan, Ellen Terry, Laurence Collection, University of Guelph Library, Elizabeth Robins, Heartbreak House, John Bull's Other Island, Life Force, Saint Joan, The Philanderer New!
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- Major Barbara (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw on 17 pages
- Widowers' Houses by George Bernard Shaw on 12 pages
- Saint Joan by Geroge Bernard Shaw on 11 pages
- Arms and the Man (Dover Thrift Editions) by George Bernard Shaw on 10 pages
- An Unsocial Socialist (Norton Library) by George Bernard Shaw on 10 pages
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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 88, and Back Matter
- Theatricality (Theatre and Performance Theory) by Tracy C. Davis in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- CONSUMING FANTASIES: LABOR, LEISURE, AND THE LONDON SHOPGIRL, by LISE SHAPIRO SANDERS in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by Marvin A. Carlson in Front Matter
- Michel Saint-Denis and the Shaping of the Modern Actor (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by Jane Baldwin in Front Matter
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