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Who s Afraid of Bernard Shaw Some Personalities in Shaw s Plays 1st Edition by Stanley Weintraub ISBN 0813037263 978-0813037264

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Author(s): Stanley Weintraub
ISBN(s): 9780813037264, 0813037263
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 7.09 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0813037263  

ISBN 13: 978-0813037264

Author: Stanley Weintraub

“Splendid. This book continually surprises and entertains with its revelations about Shaw’s engagement with an impressive array of historical and contemporary figures, ranging from Jesus to Virginia Woolf. This is a virtuoso performance by a maestro of Shaw studies.”—A. M. Gibbs, author of Bernard Shaw: A Life “Ur-Shavian Stanley Weintraub’s great virtues as a writer are stunning erudition and a consistently high level of readability. Again and again, his scholarship is illuminating—alive with original findings that make his essays profitable and exciting to read.”—Charles A. Carpenter, author of Bernard Shaw as Artist-Fabian People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognizable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice Webb into a witchlike virago in The Millionairess, Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull’s Other Island, and Lawrence of Arabia into the eccentric army private Napoleon Alexander Trotsky Meek in Too True to Be Good. However, as eminent Shaw scholar Stanley Weintraub reveals in this exquisite collection, Shaw’s relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and deliciously complex.

Table of contents: 

  1. Shaw’s Jesus and Judas: Passion without “Passion”

  2. A Shavian Caesar

  3. Schiller’s Die Räuber and Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell

  4. Shaw’s “Secretary for America” and General John Burgoyne

  5. Cetewayo: Shaw’s Hero from Africa

  6. Disraeli in Shaw

  7. Shaw’s Musician: Edward Elgar

  8. Shaw’s Goddess: Lady Colin Campbell

  9. Shaw’s Sculptress: Kathleen Scott

  10. Eugene O’Neill: The Shavian Dimension

  11. Christmas Coward and the Avuncular Shaw

  12. King Magnus and King Minus: A Play and a Playlet

  13. Who’s Afraid of Bernard Shaw? Virginia Woolf and GBS

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