Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? : Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays.

By:

Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Florida Bernard ShawPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813040554
0813040558
0813041546
9780813041544

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? : Some Personalities in Shaw's Plays.DDC classification:

822.912

LOC classification:

PR5367

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Contents:

Table of Contents ix; Foreword xi; Borrowing People: A Preface xiii; 1 Shaw's Jesus and Judas: Passion without "Passion" 1; 2 A Shavian Caesar 17; 3 Schiller's Die Räuber and Shaw's Don Juan in Hell 29; 4 Shaw's "Secretary for America" and General John Burgoyne 39; 5 Cetewayo: Shaw's Hero from Africa 51; 6 Disraeli in Shaw 65; 7 Shaw's Musician: Edward Elgar 79; 8 Shaw's Goddess: Lady Colin Campbell 99; 9 Shaw's Sculptress: Kathleen Scott 118; 10 Eugene O'Neill: The Shavian Dimension 139; 11 Noël Coward and the Avuncular Shaw 161; 12 King Magnus and King Minus: A Play and a Playlet 175.

13 Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Virginia Woolf and GBS 194Index 219.

Summary: Featuring figures as varied as Julius Caesar, Zulu king Cetewayo, Noel Coward, Edward Elgar, and Benjamin Disraeli, this volume brilliantly demonstrates how Shaw put something of himself into all of his "people." The result is a book that is consistently revealing, intriguing, and entertaining.

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13 Who's Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Virginia Woolf and GBS 194Index 219.

Featuring figures as varied as Julius Caesar, Zulu king Cetewayo, Noel Coward, Edward Elgar, and Benjamin Disraeli, this volume brilliantly demonstrates how Shaw put something of himself into all of his "people." The result is a book that is consistently revealing, intriguing, and entertaining.