The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright

John A Bertolini

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan's dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, i... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book is an anthology focused on Shaw's efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland. Following Declan Kiberd's Forew... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw, Paul Ricoeur, and the Jesusian Dialectics of Redemptive Living

Howard Ira Einsohn

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The... Lees meer

Shaw's Ibsen

Joan Templeton

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• 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 ... Lees meer

Lady Gregory and Irish National Theatre

Eglantina Remport

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Addresses for the first time Ruskin's immense influence on the period of the Irish Revival Represents a pioneering study of the influence of nineteent... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw's Bridges to Chinese Culture

Kay Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. An... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

L W Conolly

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw's plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-19... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw, Paul Ricoeur, and the Jesusian Dialectics of Redemptive Living

Howard Ira Einsohn

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The... Lees meer

Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion

Jean Reynolds

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw's Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadra... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook

David Clare

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diaspo... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw, Automata, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence

Kay Li

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• ​This project is the first to explore how Bernard Shaw intersects constructively with automata, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Shaw was born... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect

Stephen Watt

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his charac... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw, W. T. Stead, and the New Journalism

Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book explores Bernard Shaw's journalism from the mid-1880s through the Great War--a period in which Shaw contributed some of the most powerful an... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw on the American Stage

L W Conolly

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Bernard Shaw on the American Stage is the first comprehensive study of the production of Bernard Shaw's plays in America. During his lifetime (1856-19... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book explores, through a multidisciplinary approach, the immense influence exerted by Bernard Shaw on the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of... Lees meer

The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright

John A Bertolini

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan's dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, i... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw

Audrey McNamara

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advoca... Lees meer

Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

Mary Christian

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• ​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 marr... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw and the British Regional Repertory Movement

Soudabeh Ananisarab

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book is the first to explore Shaw's full involvement with the twentieth-century British regional repertory movement. Using extensive archival res... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw and St. John Hankin

Christopher Wixson

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book proposes a vibrant intertextual dialogue between St. John Hankin's manners comedies and what are considered Bernard Shaw's "minor" Edwardian... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of ... Lees meer

Shaw's Ibsen

Joan Templeton

• Paperback | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• 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 ... Lees meer

Coward the Dramatist

Roger Kojecky

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Discussions of Coward's achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical literar... Lees meer

Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect

Stephen Watt

• Hardcover | Engels | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his charac... Lees meer