George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Wixson (Autor)

Oxford University Press

erschienen am 24. September 2020

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Softcover
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160 Seiten

978-0-19-885009-0 (ISBN)

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Christopher Wixson introduces George Bernard Shaw, the greatest playwright in English after Shakespeare. Taking a chronological approach through his works, he provides an overview of Shaw's sensibility as a writer, and studies the creative evolution of core themes and styles throughout his long career.

Reihe:	Very Short Introductions
Sprache:	Englisch
Verlagsort:	Oxford \| Großbritannien
Illustrationen:	8 black and white images
Maße:	Höhe: 174 mm \| Breite: 113 mm \| Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht:	124 gr
Schlagworte:	Drama - Dramatiker \| Schauspiel \| Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-885009-0 (9780198850090)

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Christopher Wixson is Professor of English and Theatre Arts at Eastern Illinois University, USA. He teaches advanced courses in early modern drama and modernism, script analysis and dramaturgy, and general courses in writing and literature. He has published widely on twentieth-century British and American drama, including Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising, Prophet Motives (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), and is General Editor of the bi-annual scholarly journal SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies.

Introduction; Shavian; 1 GBS; 2 Unpleasant; 3 Pleasant; 4 Puritan; 5 Political; 6 Extravagant; 7 Farfetched

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