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George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 027593764X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-20th 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.

George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994-07-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-20th 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.

George Bernard Shaw in Context

Author : Brad Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316432165
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw in Context written by Brad Kent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, the world lost one of its most well-known authors, a revolutionary who was as renowned for his personality as he was for his humour, humanity, and rebellious thinking. He remains a compelling figure who deserves attention not only for how influential he was in his time, but for how relevant he is to ours. This collection sets Shaw's life and achievements in context, with forty-two scholarly essays devoted to subjects that interested him and defined his work. Contributors explore a wide range of themes, moving from factors that were formative in Shaw's life, to the artistic work that made him most famous and the institutions with which he worked, to the political and social issues that consumed much of his attention, and, finally, to his influence and reception. Presenting fresh material and arguments, this collection will point to new directions of research for future scholars.

An Unsocial Socialist (Annotated)

Author : George Bernard George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540640024
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book An Unsocial Socialist (Annotated) written by George Bernard George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw was a master of the satire, and he used his pen as a knife to cut through the bejeweled ribbons of a class structure that he found to be both unsustainable and at the pinnacle of it's success. In this work, he elucidates the concepts of socialism far better than any of the actual proponents of the philosophy did, and yet also showed the relative difficulties in ridding society of the evils of rampant capitalism.

Bernard Shaw on Cinema

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809321551
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw on Cinema written by Bernard Shaw and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an interviewer asked Bernard Shaw whether, "speaking personally", he would prefer to see the English and Americans "become drama and variety fans as of old, rather than movie fans", Shaw replied, "Speaking personally, I should prefer to see them become Shaw fans". With his customary wit and quite often with remarkable prescience, Shaw began a dialogue on cinema that ran almost from the infancy of the industry in 1908 until his death in 1950. Bernard F. Dukore presents the first collection of Bernard Shaw's writings and oral statements about cinema. Of the more than one hundred comments Dukore has selected, fifty-nine -- more than half -- are new to today's readers. Twelve are previously unpublished, one is published in full for the first time, and forty-six appear in a collected edition of Shaw's writings for the first time since their publication in newspapers and magazines. Very early in the life of cinema, Shaw perceived that as an invention, movies would be more momentous than the printing press because they appealed to the illiterate as well as the literate, to the manual laborer at the end of an exhausting day as well as to the person with more leisure. He predicted that cinema would form people's minds and shape their conduct. He recognized that cinema's "colossal proportions make mediocrity compulsory" by leveling art and life down to the blandest morality and to the lowest common denominator of potential audiences throughout the world. By 1908, Shaw was familiar with experiments synchronizing movies and sound. When talkies arrived, he discerned that they would precipitate major changes in acting, writing, and economics. He also saw how they would affect live theatre:"The theatre may survive as a place where people are taught to act", he said in 1930, "but apart from that there will be nothing but 'talkies' soon". At that time, few people in the theatrical profession were making such prophecies, at least not in public.

Fanny's First Play

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Fanny's First Play written by George Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw's comedy is about people doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. Shaw laments in the preface to this play that young people simply follow what is considered 'moral' at any particular time, and not because they know right from wrong.

An Unsocial Socialist

Author : George Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522727712
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book An Unsocial Socialist written by George Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw was a a Nobel-Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950. Originally earning his way as an influential London music and theatre critic, Shaw's greatest gift was for the modern drama. Strongly influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he successfully introduced a new realism into English-language drama. He wrote more than 60 plays, among them Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Pygmalion. With his range from biting contemporary satire to historical allegory, Shaw became the leading comedy dramatist of his generation and one of the most important playwrights in the English language since the 17th century.

George Bernard Shaw - An Unsocial Socialist

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Word to the Wise
ISBN 13 : 9781785433047
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw - An Unsocial Socialist written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Word to the Wise. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26th, 1856 in Synge Street, Dublin. His career began modestly initially working for some years in an Estate office but a thirst for reading and knowledge moved his career to writing several novels, none of which were published for several years. He wrote as a critic for several years, mainly on the theatre where his campaigning helped moved Victorian theatre towards a more realistic form. Shaw also took up his fervent socialist views at this point, a cause he would be indelibly linked with throughout his long and productive life. An initial foray into writing a play in 1885 only came to fruition in 1892 and with it his path as one of the leading playwrights of the 20th century was set. Shaw was also a fervent Fabian and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Saint Joan in 1923 gained Shaw yet another international success. This led in 1925 to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his contributions to literature. The citation praised his work as ..". marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty." In 1938 he added an Academy Award for his work on Pygmalion. Shaw remains the only person ever to win a Nobel Prize and an Oscar. He refused all other awards, even a knighthood. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2nd, 1950 at the age of 94, of renal failure precipitated by injuries incurred by a fall whilst pruning a tree.

An Unsocial Socialist

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519573209
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book An Unsocial Socialist written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was a Nobel-Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950. Originally earning his way as an influential London music and theatre critic, Shaw's greatest gift was for the modern drama. Strongly influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he successfully introduced a new realism into English-language drama. He wrote more than 60 plays, among them Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Pygmalion. With his range from biting contemporary satire to historical allegory, Shaw became the leading comedy dramatist of his generation and one of the most important playwrights in the English language since the 17th century.

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825569
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw written by Christopher Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable 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, focusing on both 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. Topics include Shaw and the publishing trade, Shaw and feminism, and Shaw and the Empire, as well as analyses of the early plays, discussion plays and history plays.

Plays and Players

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758172686
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Plays and Players written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Press Cuttings

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519595126
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Press Cuttings written by Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council. In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner.

Fanny's First Play

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519556325
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Fanny's First Play written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was a Nobel-Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950. Originally earning his way as an influential London music and theatre critic, Shaw's greatest gift was for the modern drama. Strongly influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he successfully introduced a new realism into English-language drama. He wrote more than 60 plays, among them Man and Superman, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Pygmalion. With his range from biting contemporary satire to historical allegory, Shaw became the leading comedy dramatist of his generation and one of the most important playwrights in the English language since the 17th century.

Fannys First Play

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519556837
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Fannys First Play written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, socialist, and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama. Over the course of his life he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his plays address prevailing social problems, but each also includes a vein of comedy that makes their stark themes more palatable. In these works Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. An ardent socialist, Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics, serving on the London County Council. In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938). The former for his contributions to literature and the latter for his work on the film "Pygmalion" (adaptation of his play of the same name). Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright, as he had no desire for public honours, but he accepted it at his wife's behest. She considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English. Shaw died at Shaw's Corner, aged 94, from chronic health problems exacerbated by injuries incurred by falling.

George Bernard Shaw

Author : Joseph McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philanderer

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Philanderer written by George Bernard Shaw and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was Shaw's second play and it immediately attracted the attention of the censors. Consequently, it was not performed for nearly 20 years. The theme that so upset the censors was that of feminism and discussion of sexual politics.

Theatrics

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802030009
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Theatrics written by Bernard Shaw and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the correspondence selected for this volume - most of it hitherto unpublished - relates to Bernard Shaw's theatre dealings and theatrical interest, at the same time attesting to the 'histrionic instinct' and 'theatrified imagination' (his own phrases) of the man who penned them.