Edwardian Shaw - Hugo, Leon
124,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Versandkostenfrei*
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
  • Gebundenes Buch

Edwardian Shaw covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the crucial first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance. By going to contemporary documents and highlighting aspects of Shaw's career at this time, particularly his emergence as a moral revolutionary and playwright of original and disquieting power, Leon Hugo depicts a man who confronted a highly conservative world and managed by the force of his genius to stamp his personality on the age.

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
Edwardian Shaw covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the crucial first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance. By going to contemporary documents and highlighting aspects of Shaw's career at this time, particularly his emergence as a moral revolutionary and playwright of original and disquieting power, Leon Hugo depicts a man who confronted a highly conservative world and managed by the force of his genius to stamp his personality on the age.
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Autorenporträt
LEON HUGO, former Director of Graduate Studies and Head of the Department of English, University of South Africa. Author of Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher and many research and critical articles on Shavian and related matters in the USA and UK. He has written several successful novels for children, as well as short stories and plays.
Rezensionen
"... a new and richly detailed picture of Shaw's emergence as a well-known, even notorious, public figure." - Choice

"Professor Hugo has followed his 1971 book Bernard Shaw: Playwright and Preacher with this new study certain to gain the attention and gratitude of readers" - The Independent Shavian