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Best-Loved Bernard Shaw Anthony Roche

Best-Loved Bernard Shaw By Anthony Roche

Best-Loved Bernard Shaw by Anthony Roche

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An attractive & approachable selection of the work of Bernard Shaw, one of the most remarkable people of the 20th century. His steely self-determination turned the conviction that he would become a great writer into reality. With extracts from his plays, essays and personal letters.

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Best-Loved Bernard Shaw by Anthony Roche

An attractive and approachable selection of the work of George Bernard Shaw.

One of the most remarkable writers of the 20th century, Shaw contributed in a range of ways to both political and social writings as well as creating great works of literature. Shaw is one of only two people to have won both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize for Literature.

Shaw started from the most unpropitious of beginnings. But he possessed a steely self-determination, and turned the unshakeable conviction that he would become a great writer into a self-fulfilling prophecy. This book features selections and extracts from his plays, essays and personal letters.

About Anthony Roche

Anthony Roche was born in Dublin in 1951 and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with a First-Class Honours B.A. in English in 1973. He attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was awarded an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. for a dissertation on J.M. Synge. Having taught in the U.S. for the 1980s, he returned to Ireland where he was a Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin, retiring in 2016. He is married to the writer Katy Hayes; they have a son, Merlin, and a daughter, Lily, and live in Monkstown, County Dublin. He has published widely on Irish drama, especially on Brian Friel. His most recent book, The Irish Dramatic Revival, 1899-1939 (Bloomsbury, 2015), includes a chapter 'Bernard Shaw: The Absent Presence'.

Table of Contents

Introduction page 9

Chapter One: Socialism 19
'A Manifesto' (Fabian Tracts no. 2) 22
Lecture on Socialism 25
From The Intelligent Woman's Guide to 28
Socialism and Capitalism

Chapter Two: Idealism and Realism 35
The Prose and Plays of the 1890s 36
From The Quintessence of Ibsenism 37
From Arms and the Man 42
From Mrs. Warren's Profession 47

Chapter Three: The New Century and a Visionary
Theatre 53
From Man and Superman 57
From John Bull's Other Island 65
From Major Barbara 69

Chapter Four: Flower Girls and Duchesses 53
From Pygmalion 78

Chapter Five: The First World War and Easter 1916 85
From Common Sense About the War 88
From O'Flaherty V.C. 92
From Heartbreak House 97
From 'A Discarded Defence of Roger Casement' 101

Chapter Six: Late Shaw 105
From St. Joan 107
From The Millionairess 114
From Geneva 120

Coda 124
Sources 126
Acknowledgements 128

Additional information

GOR013607947
9781788490535
1788490533
Best-Loved Bernard Shaw by Anthony Roche
Anthony Roche
Best-Loved Irish Writers
Used - Like New
Hardback
O'Brien Press Ltd
20211018
128
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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