Shaw the Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies (008): v. 8 - Hardcover

Weintraub

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0271006137 ISBN 13: 9780271006130

Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990

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Book by Stanley Weintraub

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The newest volume of SHAW captures the variety and range of Bernard Shaw's multifarious activities over a long and crowded lifetime. We see G.B.S. as an anonymous reporter covering Queen Victoria's opening of the Royal Institution in London; as an unknown book reviewer of a volume about doctors, anticipating his play; as a Mozart-saturated former music critic putting his version ofDon Giovanni into his own opera-without-music, Don Juan in HelI; and as an early aviator—including an encounter with a daring lady parachutist—in Misalliance. And we see Shaw inserting his ideas of Ireland intoJohn Bull's Other Island; propagandizing for a young French playwright because the new ideas eclipsed, for him, Eugene Brieux's turgid dramaturgy; and engaging in half-a-century of exasperated mutual admiration with an Englishman whose ideas he detested but whose personality overwhelmed ideology—Winston Churchill. Finally, a post-Shaw actor, and one of the ornaments of the contemporary London stage, Daniel Massey, explains how to perform the Master's lines today.

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• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0271006137
• ISBN 13: 9780271006130
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Herausgeber: Weintraub Stanley