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Shaw’s Ibsen
A Re-Appraisal
Inbunden, 2018
1636 kr
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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 …
Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook
Av David Clare
Inbunden, 2015
634 kr
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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 nature of Irishness.
Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook
Av David Clare
Häftad, 2017
344 kr
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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 nature of Irishness.
Shaw’s Ibsen
A Re-Appraisal
Häftad, 2021
1073 kr
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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 …
Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances
Inbunden, 2017
1260 kr
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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 …
Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances
Häftad, 2018
384 kr
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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 …
Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising
Prophet Motives
Häftad, 2019
365 kr
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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 creation of Shaw’s 'G.B.S.' …
Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre
Art, Drama, Politics
Häftad, 2018
365 kr
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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 in Ireland, especially in …
Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect
Shaw, Freud, Simmel
Av Stephen Watt
Häftad, 2019
343 kr
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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 also explores how materialism, …
Performance and Spectatorship in Edwardian Art Writing
Inbunden, 2019
603 kr
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This book explores how Edwardian art writing shaped and narrated embodied, performative forms of aesthetic spectatorship. It argues that we need to expand the range of texts we think of as art writing, and features a diverse array of critical and fictional works, often including texts that are …
Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity
Inbunden, 2019
960 kr
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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 appropriation of themes from …
Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity
Häftad, 2020
960 kr
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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 appropriation of themes from …
Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists
Inbunden, 2020
904 kr
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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 domesticity, and, in the process, …
Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists
Häftad, 2021
904 kr
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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 domesticity, and, in the process, …
Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland
Av Audrey McNamara, Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Inbunden, 2020
1439 kr
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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 Ireland Michael D. Higgins, Anthony …
Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland
Av Audrey McNamara, Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Häftad, 2021
1439 kr
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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 Ireland Michael D. Higgins, Anthony …
Bernard Shaw and the Censors
Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen
Inbunden, 2020
1320 kr
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“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 Studies and author of Bernard Shaw and the French …
Bernard Shaw and the Censors
Fights and Failures, Stage and Screen
Häftad, 2021
1087 kr
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“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 Studies and author of Bernard Shaw and the French …
Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly
Av Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Inbunden, 2021
1465 kr
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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 of Shaw as a menacing, yet …
Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly
Av Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Häftad, 2022
1465 kr
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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 of Shaw as a menacing, yet …
Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion
Shavian Sisters
Inbunden, 2022
1200 kr
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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 the stories of the two …
Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion
Shavian Sisters
Häftad, 2023
1200 kr
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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 the stories of the two …
Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World
Av Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín
Inbunden, 2022
1465 kr
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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 works into Spanish; the …
Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World
Av Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín
Häftad, 2023
1465 kr
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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 works into Spanish; the …
Unions, Strikes, Shaw
"The Capitalism of the Proletariat"
Inbunden, 2022
568 kr
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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, paradoxically, “the Capitalism of the …
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage
A Chronicle of Premieres and Notable Revivals
Inbunden, 2022
1353 kr
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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 …
Bernard Shaw on the American Stage
A Chronicle of Premieres and Notable Revivals
Häftad, 2023
1353 kr
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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 …
Bernard Shaw
Reimagining Women and Ireland, 1892–1914
Inbunden, 2023
1439 kr
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Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw’s engagement with marriage …
Bernard Shaw
Reimagining Women and Ireland, 1892–1914
Häftad, 2024
1353 kr
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Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw’s engagement with marriage …
Bernard Shaw, Paul Ricoeur, and the Jesusian Dialectics of Redemptive Living
Inbunden, 2023
1439 kr
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This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living …
