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Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League

Author : Ellen Ecker Dolgin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469471
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League written by Ellen Ecker Dolgin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early 20th century non-commercial theaters emerged as hubs of social transformation on both sides of the Atlantic. The 1904-1907 seasons at London's Royal Court Theatre were a particularly galvanizing force, with 11 plays by Bernard Shaw--along with works by Granville Barker, John Galsworthy and Elizabeth Robins--that starred activist performers and challenged social conventions. Many of these plays were seen on American stages. Featuring more conversation than plot points, the new drama collectively urged audiences to recognize themselves in the characters. In 1908, four hundred actresses attended a London hotel luncheon, determined to effect change for women. The hot topics--chillingly pertinent today--mixed public and private controversies over sexuality, income distribution and full citizenship across gender and class lines. A resolution emerged to form the Actresses Franchise League, which produced original suffrage plays, participated in mass demonstrations and collaborated with ordinary women.

Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances

Author : Robert A. Gaines
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349951706
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances written by Robert A. Gaines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his works, showing how his personal relationships in and out of matrimonial bonds change the ways his characters enter and exit marriages and misalliances. While providing a wealth of new analysis, this collection of essays also leaves lingering questions for the reader to spark continuing dialogue in both individual and academic settings.

Sketches from the Actresses' Franchise League

Author : Vivien Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sketches from the Actresses' Franchise League written by Vivien Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Text & Presentation, 2015

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476663343
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Text & Presentation, 2015 written by Graley Herren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this book covers subjects from ancient Greece to 21st century America with a variety of approaches and formats, including two transcripts, 10 research papers and six book reviews. This year's highlight is the keynote conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. This volume is the twelfth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis.

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

Author : L. W. Conolly
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031042417
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw on the American Stage written by L. W. Conolly and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard 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 Shakespeare. Forty-four of Shaw’s plays were staged in America before his death, eight more posthumously. Eleven of the productions were world premieres. Bernard Shaw on the American Stage tells the story of the fifty-two premieres, which, apart from a few fragments, is his total dramatic oeuvre. The book also includes, again for the first time, production data and concise overviews of dozens of the most notable American revivals of the plays, from the 1890s to the beginning of the 2020 pandemic. Illustrations—production photographs, programmes, theatre buildings, playbills, actors’ studio portraits— inform the study throughout.

George Bernard Shaw in Context

Author : Brad Kent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316432165
Total Pages : 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 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.

The Golden Thread

Author : David Clare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800859465
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Thread written by David Clare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume One covers plays by Irish women playwrights written between 1716 to 1992, and seeks to address and redress the historic absence of Irish female playwrights in theatre histories. Highlighting the work of nine women playwrights from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as thirteen of the twentieth century's key writers, the chapters in this volume explore such varied themes as the impact of space and place on identity, women's strategic use of genre, and theatrical responses to shifts in Irish politics and culture.

Shaw’s Ibsen

Author : Joan Templeton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137540443
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Shaw’s Ibsen written by Joan Templeton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw’s important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist. Further, this study shows that Shaw’s famous but maligned The Quintessence of Ibsenism reflects Ibsen’s own anti-idealist notion of his work and argues that Shaw’s readings of Ibsen’s plays are pioneering analyses that anticipate later criticism. It offers new readings of Shaw’s “Ibsenist” plays as well as a comprehensive account of Ibsen’s importance for Shaw’s dramatic criticism, from his early journalism to Our Theatres of the Nineties, both as a weapon against the inanities of the Victorian stage and as the standard bearer for modernism.

A Bernard Shaw Chronology

Author : A. Gibbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230599583
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Bernard Shaw Chronology written by A. Gibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.M. Gibbs provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the life, career and associations of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), one of the most eminent and influential literary figures of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished material, this work illuminates the complex fabric of Shaw's extraordinary career as playwright, novelist, critic, orator, political activist, social commentator, avant-garde thinker and controversialist. Images of Shaw's daily private life, and of his tangled love affairs, flirtations and friendships, are intertwined with the records of his prodigiously productive career as public figure and creative writer, in a fully documented study which is both a scholarly resource and a lively biographical portrait. An introductory chapter explores theoretical issues in biography raised by the chronology form; and a chapter on Shaw's ancestry and family supplies new evidence about his Irish background. A Who's Who section contains thumbnail sketches of over two hundred contemporaries of Shaw who had significant associations with him.

1992, Shaw and the Last Hundred Years

Author : Bernard Frank Dukore
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271013244
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book 1992, Shaw and the Last Hundred Years written by Bernard Frank Dukore and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1892 the first production of Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, heralded the birth of modern drama in the English language. One hundred years later a group of Shavians gathered to examine the significance and influence of Shaw's drama in the English-speaking world. The conference, sponsored by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, brought together theater scholars, critics, and artists from Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States. The conference also featured productions of The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, The Man of Destiny, and Farfetched Tales, each followed by a symposium. The centennial conference not only marked the importance of the event but also stimulated new ways of regarding that historic moment, reexaminations of the significance of Shaw's plays, and explorations of their consequences. Some speakers reevaluated the genesis of the first production of Widowers' Houses and its social, cultural, and theatrical context. Some brought to bear on the subject of Shavian drama recent critical perspectives, such as feminism, deconstructionism, and the type of close textual and intertextual scrutiny seldom accorded Shaw. Others explored his impact in England, America, Ireland, and the Antipodes. Still others examined the relationship of comedy and ideas, subtext, and how this Victorian dramatist remains pertinent today. The conference concluded with a symposium that aimed to assess what might lie ahead for Shaw on page and stage in the next hundred years. This volume records the proceedings of the conference as well as reviews and the continuing checklist of Shaviana. Contributors are Peter Barnes, Charles A. Berst, Montgomery Davis, Bernard F. Dukore, Martin Esslin, Joanne E. Gates, Nicholas Grene, Christopher Innes, Katherine E. Kelly, Frederick P. W. McDowell, Rhoda Nathan, Christopher Newton, Michael O'Hara, Jean Reynolds, Irving Wardle, Stanley Weintraub, and J. L. Wisenthal.

Bernard Shaw

Author : A. M. Gibbs
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059496
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by A. M. Gibbs and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Shaw fashioned public images of himself that belied the nature and depth of his emotional experiences and the complexity of his intellectual outlook. In this absorbing biography, noted Shavian authority A. M. Gibbs debunks many of the elements that form the foundation of Shaw's self-created legend--from his childhood (which was not the loveless experience he claimed publicly), to his sexual relationships with several women, to his marriage, his politics, his Irish identity, and his controversial philosophy of Creative Evolution. Drawing on previously unpublished materials, including never-before-seen photographs and early sketches by Shaw, Gibbs offers a fresh perspective and brings us closer than ever before to the human being behind the masks.

George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works

Author : Archibald Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works written by Archibald Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

George Bernard Shaw

Author : Archibald Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Bernard Shaw written by Archibald Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Playlets

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198804989
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Playlets written by George Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These highbrows must remember that there is a demand for little things as well as for big things'George Bernard Shaw was one of the leading playwrights and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He helped propel drama towards the unexpected, into a realm where it might shock audiences into new viewpoints and into fresh understandings of society. Throughout his longwriting career Shaw wrote short plays, ranging in length from 1000-word puppet play, Shakes Versus Shav, to the 12,000-word suffragette comedy, Press Cuttings. These plays can be taken to illuminate Shaw's life and legacy, from ideas about war and patriotism in O'Flaherty, V.C. to censorship in TheShewing up of Blanco Posset.Surveying Shaw's entire career of writing short dramas, focusing especially on those years when his work in the form was particularly prolific (around 1909 and during the First World War), this collection places Shaw's short plays broadly into four key areas: farces, historical sketches, war dramas,and Shakespearean shorts. For each of these areas, the volume explores Shaw's aesthetic and thematic concerns, the precise historical and generic contexts in which the works were written, the major criticism and scholarship that has subsequently emerged, and the most notable stage and screenproductions. This collection reveals how a playwright often criticized for being too wordy was actually a master of the short form.

Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors

Author : Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031496043
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors written by Lagretta Tallent Lenker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forgotten Wives

Author : Oakley, Ann
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447355865
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Wives written by Oakley, Ann and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, records of women's lives and work have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Wives, especially, disappear as supporters of their husbands’ work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men’s domestic domains; even intellectual collaboration tends to be portrayed as normative wifely behaviour rather than as joint work. Forgotten Wives examines the ways in which the institution and status of marriage has contributed to the active ‘disremembering’ of women’s achievements. Drawing on archives, biographies, autobiographies and historical accounts, best-selling author and academic Ann Oakley interrogates conventions of history and biography-writing using the case studies of four women married to well-known men – Charlotte Shaw, Mary Booth, Jeannette Tawney and Janet Beveridge. Asking critical questions about the mechanisms that maintain gender inequality, despite thriving feminist and other equal rights movements, she contributes a fresh vision of how the welfare state developed in the early 20th century.

The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook

Author : Maggie B. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136345221
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook written by Maggie B. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. Each of the book’s parts comprises full reproductions of the plays that defined the period and key critical writings that inform and contextualise their reading. "Here is an anthology of plays and criticism that all teachers of drama should take seriously. The fresh angles and approaches the volume offers on topics such as naturalism, the historical avant-garde, and breakthrough works by innovative performance artists (e.g., Laurie Anderson, SuAndi) all argue in favor of this collection as required reading in courses on modern stagecraft." CHOICE, Feb 2011