Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production ofBernard Shaw’s plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-1950), Shaw was America’s most popular living playwright; productions of his plays were outnumbered only by...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-24
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Unions, Strikes, Shaw

Unions, Strikes, Shaw: ‘The Capitalism of the Proletariat’ is the first book to treat Bernard Shaw—socialist, dramatist, public speaker and union member—in relation to unions and strikes. For over half a century he urged workers to join unions, which he called,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World

This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic.This collection of essays encompasses the reception and dissemination of his ideas; the translation of his...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-10
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-02-28
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and the Dead James Connolly

This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is carefully unearthed, stretching from its 1894 roots via W. B. Yeats’ dream...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-21
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and the Censors

“Dukore’s style is fluid and his wit delightful. I learned a tremendous amount, as will most readers, and Bernard Shaw and the Censors will doubtless be the last word on the topic.”- Michel Pharand, former editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-06
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland

This book is an anthology focused on Shaw’s efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland. Following Declan Kiberd’s Foreword and the editor’s Introduction, the contributing chapters, in their order of appearance, are from President of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-13
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

?This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded to changing perceptions of marriage. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists challenged romanticized ideals of love and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-04-23
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity

This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller’s 1801 romantic tragedy, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). The author elucidates Schiller’s...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-08
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising

This book charts how promotional campaigns in which Bernard Shaw participated were key crucibles within which agency and personality could re-negotiate their relationship to one another and to the consuming public. Concurrent with the rise of modern advertising, the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-13
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre

This book is the first comprehensive critical assessment of the aesthetic and social ideals of Lady Augusta Gregory, founder, patron, director, and dramatist of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It elaborates on her distinctive vision of the social role of a National Theatre...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-26
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect

This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-03-05
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Shaw's Ibsen

This book argues that Shaw was a masterful reader of Ibsen's plays both as texts and as the cornerstone of the modern theatre. Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw’s initial interest in Ibsen as the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-16
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances

This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Shaw’s own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-25
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Crimes and Punishments and Bernard Shaw

This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, nonprofessional criminals, businessmen, believers in a cause, the police, the Government, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-17
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on Poverty and Equality in the Modern World, 1905–1914

This book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy.The...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-23
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism

This book explores Bernard Shaw’s journalism from the mid-1880s through the Great War—a period in which Shaw contributed some of the most powerful and socially relevant journalism the western world has experienced. In approaching Shaw’s journalism, the promoter and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-02-07
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright

This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also articulates the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-17
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw's Bridges to Chinese Culture

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-10
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook

Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-11-17
Collection : Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
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