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Shaw's Sense of History
  • Author : J. L. Wisenthal
  • Release Date : 18 May 1988
  • Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press
  • Genre : Historical drama, English
  • Pages : 186
  • ISBN 13 : UOM:39015014592318
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Book Description: Shaw's thinking about history was fundamental to his work as a dramatist; historical issues deeply engaged his plays, whether set in the past or the present. This is the first book to explore this preoccupation with historical themes, demonstrating how Shaw's interest in the historical process achieved dramatic expression, and throwing new light on the playwright's accomplishment in a variety of plays.

Shaw s Sense of History

Shaw s Sense of History

Author : J. L. Wisenthal,Professor of English J L Wisenthal
Publisher : Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press
Genre : Historical drama, English
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Shaw's thinking about history was fundamental to his work as a dramatist; historical issues deeply engaged his plays, whether set in the past or the present. This is the first book to explore this preoccupation with historical themes, demonstrating how Shaw's interest in the historical process achieved dramatic expression, and ...

Major History Plays of Shaw

Major History Plays of Shaw

Author : Dipankar Chakrabarti
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Genre : Historical drama, English
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G.B. Shaw Is A Literary Mohican Who Bestrode Modern Thought Like A Colossus, But He Was Not A Historian In A Popular Sense. He Wrote Many Plays On Historical Themes, And The Success Of His Historical Plays Shows What He Could Have Achieved If He Had Devoted Himself To ...

Shaw and History

Shaw and History

Author : Gale K. Larson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This special issue of Shaw offers ten articles that focus on the theme of "Shaw and History." That focus illuminates Shaw's concept of history as art and its uses for dramatic purposes. It is a focus that is broadly applied to the historical perspective. Views range from Shaw's uses of ...

The Achievement of Literary Authority

The Achievement of Literary Authority

Author : Ina Ferris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Although literary historians have largely neglected them, Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels mark a pivotal moment in the formation of the modern literary field, Ina Ferris argues, exemplifying the complex intersections of gender and genre in the evolution of nineteenth-century literary authority. Focusing on the critical reception of Scott's early ...

The Architecture of Address

The Architecture of Address

Author : Jake Adam York
Publisher : Psychology Press
Genre : Poetry
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....

Ireland

Ireland

Author : Terence Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Genre : History
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Provides a fresh interpretation of the nineteenth-century German masterpiece, describes Goethe's attitudes towards writers, composers, and artists, and suggests that he saw all art as a part of a tradition...

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw

Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher : Penn State Press
Genre : Reference
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This is the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of works by and about Bernard Shaw. No book has appeared before that has surveyed all of the research and writing that the life and work of Bernard Shaw have evoked. The greatest dramaturgist in English after Shakespeare, Shaw was one of the ...

1992 Shaw and the Last Hundred Years

1992 Shaw and the Last Hundred Years

Author : Bernard Frank Dukore
Publisher : Penn State Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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In 1892 the first production of Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, heralded the birth of modern drama in the English language. One hundred years later a group of Shavians gathered to examine the significance and influence of Shaw's drama in the English-speaking world. The conference, sponsored by Virginia Polytechnic Institute ...

Practice and Research

Practice and Research

Author : Ian F. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Social Science
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Practice and Research is an overview of Professor Ian Shaw's analysis of the complexity and challenges of the practice/research relationship in social work - a theme that has been the focus of much of his writing over his career. Introduced with a new essay that reflects on the 'serendipity, ...

Learning History in America

Learning History in America

Author : Lloyd S. Kramer,Donald Reid,William L. Barney
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Genre : History
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The essays in this book, like all other texts, have been written in a historical context that shapes both the themes and the prose styles of the authors. A close reading of these texts would in fact lead to many overlapping contexts of politics, social hierarchies, modern communications, and international ...

The Oxford History of World Cinema

The Oxford History of World Cinema

Author : Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Genre : Performing Arts
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The Oxford History of World Cinema is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken. It traces the history of the twentieth-century's most enduringly popular entertainment form, covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact. The book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of ...

Film Nation

Film Nation

Author : Robert Burgoyne
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Genre : Performing Arts
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Explores contemporary American films that challenge official history. Our movies have started talking back to us, and Film Nation takes a close look at what they have to say. In movies like JFK and Forrest Gump, Robert Burgoyne sees a filmic extension of the debates that exercise us as a ...

Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth Century British Fiction

Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth Century British Fiction

Author : Rae Greiner
Publisher : JHU Press
Genre : Literary Criticism
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She explores the work of sentimentalist philosophers David Hume, Adam Smith, and Jeremy Bentham and realist novelists Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James....