The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard ShawChristopher Innes Cambridge University Press, 24 sept 1998 - 343 páginas The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensible guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focussing both on the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches. |
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Shaws life a feminist in spite of himself | 3 |
Imprinting the stage Shaw and the publishing trade 18831903 | 25 |
New theatres for old | 55 |
New Women new plays and Shaw in the 1890s | 76 |
Shaw the dramatist | 101 |
Shaws early plays | 103 |
Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde | 124 |
Structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara | 144 |
Reinventing the history play Caesar and Cleopatra Saint Joan In Good King Charless Golden Days | 195 |
Shaws interstices of empire decolonizing at home and abroad | 218 |
The later Shaw | 240 |
Theatre work and influence | 259 |
Shaw and the Court Theatre | 261 |
Please remember this is Italian opera Shaws plays as musicdrama | 283 |
Shaw and the popular context | 309 |
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Nothing but talk talk talk Shaw talk Discussion Plays and the making of modern drama | 162 |
The roads to Heartbreak House | 180 |
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