Edwardian Shaw
The Writer and his Age
Published on 29. January 1999
Book
Hardback
XIV, 308 pages
978-0-333-73355-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"... 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
More details
Edition
1999 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XIV, 308 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-73355-4 (9780333733554)
DOI
10.1057/9780230375406
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/1999
St. Martin's Press
€75.55
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Person
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.
Content
Preface Introduction: G.B.S in the 1890s EDUCATE, AGITATE 1901-1904 January-May 1904: A Natural-Born Mountebank 1901-1902: Pathological Effusions 1903-1904: Fabian Shaw 1903-1905: International Shaw 1901-1910: Transformation THE COURT THEATRE: 1904-1907 1890-1904: Private Venture, Public Enterprise 1904-1907: The Twenty-Nine Percenters 1904-1905: Shavian Farragoes 1905-1906: Shavian Profanities 1906-July 1907: Shavian Bad Taste 1904-1907: Price and Value CONFRONT: 1907-1910 1907-1908: Storming the Citadel 1908-1909: Down with the Censor! 1910: Shavian Nastiness Edwardian Shaw POSTSCRIPT 1911: Fanny's First Play Notes Index