This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama situated in its own time and demonstrates its continuing relevance today, applying some of the newest critical approaches. Extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. 30 photos.
This volume covers all aspects of Shaw's drama situated in its own time and demonstrates its continuing relevance today, applying some of the newest critical approaches. Extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. 30 photos.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements Chronology Part I. The Social and Cultural Context: 1. Shaw's life: a feminist in spite of himself Sally Peters 2. Imprinting the stage: Shaw and the publishing trade, 1893-1903 Katherine E. Kelly 3. New theatres for old Charles A. Berst 4. New women, new plays and Shaw in the 1890s Kerry Powell Part II. Shaw the Dramatist: 5. Shaw's early plays Frederick J. Marker 6. Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde David J. Gordon 7. Paradox and parable: structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara Fredric Berg 8. 'Nothing but talk, talk, talk - Shaw talk': discussion plays and the making of modern drama Christopher Innes 9. The road to Heartbreak House Ronald Bryden 10. Reinventing the history play: Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan, 'In Good King Charles's Golden Days' Matthew H. Wikander 11. Shaw's interstices of Empire: decolonizing at home and abroad Tracy C. Davis 12. The later Shaw T. F. Evans Part III. Theatre Work and Influence: 13. Shaw and the court theatre Jan McDonald 14. Shaw's plays as music drama J. L. Wisenthal 15. Shaw and the popular context Robert G. Everding Index.
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements Chronology Part I. The Social and Cultural Context: 1. Shaw's life: a feminist in spite of himself Sally Peters 2. Imprinting the stage: Shaw and the publishing trade, 1893-1903 Katherine E. Kelly 3. New theatres for old Charles A. Berst 4. New women, new plays and Shaw in the 1890s Kerry Powell Part II. Shaw the Dramatist: 5. Shaw's early plays Frederick J. Marker 6. Shavian comedy and the shadow of Wilde David J. Gordon 7. Paradox and parable: structure and philosophy in Man and Superman and Major Barbara Fredric Berg 8. 'Nothing but talk, talk, talk - Shaw talk': discussion plays and the making of modern drama Christopher Innes 9. The road to Heartbreak House Ronald Bryden 10. Reinventing the history play: Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan, 'In Good King Charles's Golden Days' Matthew H. Wikander 11. Shaw's interstices of Empire: decolonizing at home and abroad Tracy C. Davis 12. The later Shaw T. F. Evans Part III. Theatre Work and Influence: 13. Shaw and the court theatre Jan McDonald 14. Shaw's plays as music drama J. L. Wisenthal 15. Shaw and the popular context Robert G. Everding Index.
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