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Bernard Shaw on Theater (The Critical Shaw) Kindle Edition
A collection of critical writings on theater from the Nobel Prize–winning playwright behind Man and Superman and Pygmalion.
The Critical Shaw: On Theater is a comprehensive selection of essays and addresses about drama and theater by renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw. An outspoken critic of the melodramas and formulaic farces that comprised most of the popular theater in the late nineteenth century, Shaw relentlessly campaigned for audiences, actors, theater managers, and even government officials to take theater more seriously, to use the stage as a forum for representing complex real issues such as poverty, marriage and divorce laws, sexual attraction, gender equality, and political power, so that through seeing them acted out, audiences could better understand and address them when they left the theater. Shaw’s commitment to social reform through theater was matched by his expertise in the artistic and practical aspects of drama: whether he was reviewing productions, lecturing about acting, or schooling agents on royalties and copyright law, Shaw set a standard for intelligent professionalism that our own theaters might still aspire to and be measured against.
The Critical Shaw series brings together, in five volumes and from a wide range of sources, selections from Bernard Shaw’s voluminous writings on topics that exercised him for the whole of his professional career: Literature, Music, Politics, Religion, and Theater. The volumes are edited by leading Shaw scholars, and all include an introduction, a chronology of Shaw’s life and works, annotated texts, and a bibliography. The series editor is L.W. Conolly, literary adviser to the Shaw Estate and former president of the International Shaw Society.- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRosettaBooks
- Publication dateFebruary 29, 2016
- File size4582 KB
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About the Author
D.A. Hadfield is Continuing Lecturer in English at the University of Waterloo. She has published two books on theater and feminism, Re: Producing Women's Dramatic History; The Politics of Playing in Toronto (Talonbooks, 2007) and Bernard Shaw and Feminisms: On Stage and Off (University Press of Florida’s Bernard Shaw series, 2013). She has also published several book chapters and articles on Canadian theatre and on Shaw, and has written program essays for the Shaw Festival.
Product details
- ASIN : B08KH2TMN9
- Publisher : RosettaBooks; Annotated edition (February 29, 2016)
- Publication date : February 29, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 4582 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 329 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,947,369 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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