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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw on the American Stage
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Bernard Shaw on the American Stage


L. W. Conolly


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...

Parution : 2022-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Unions, Strikes, Shaw
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Unions, Strikes, Shaw


Bernard F. Dukore


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,...

Parution : 2022-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World
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Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World


Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín


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...

Parution : 2022-05-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion
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Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion


Jean Reynolds


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...

Parution : 2022-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and the Dead James Connolly
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Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, and the Dead James Connolly


Nelson O'ceallaigh Ritschel


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...

Parution : 2021-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and the Censors
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Bernard Shaw and the Censors


Bernard F. Dukore


“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...

Parution : 2020-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland
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Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland


Nelson O'ceallaigh Ritschel


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...

Parution : 2020-07-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists
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Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists


Mary Christian


?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...

Parution : 2020-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity
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Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity


John Pendergast


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...

Parution : 2019-11-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Shaw's Ibsen
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Shaw's Ibsen


Joan Templeton


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...

Parution : 2018-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright
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The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright


John A. Bertolini


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...

Parution : 2016-11-17
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