Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
George Bernard Shaw
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Standard Name: Shaw, George Bernard
Used Form: G. B. Shaw
GBS
was a drama critic who called for reform of theatrical practice, and a dramatist who attached to his plays on publication, lengthy prefaces expounding the social and dramatic issues opened by the play itself. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him a polemicist, and says that much of the drama of his time and after was indirectly in his debt for his creation of a drama of moral passion and of intellectual conflict and debate.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Holme | The title-page quotes W. B. Yeats
: Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. Holme, Constance. Crump Folk Going Home. Cedric Chivers. title-page |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Sarah Hoey | Her mother, born Charlotte Jane Shaw
, was half-sister to George Bernard Shaw
's mother. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | This magazine aimed to reach the cultured public, and bring before it in a convincing and moderate form, the case for the Enfranchisement of Women. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 91-2 |
Occupation | Cicely Hamilton | CH
played her first role in a major West End production, George Bernard Shaw
's Fanny's First Play. Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press. 131 |
Literary responses | Radclyffe Hall | A number of writers rallied in support of RH
. E. M. Forster
and Leonard Woolf
drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw
, T. S. Eliot |
Education | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | Horniman, an English heiress, disapproved of the Abbey's involvement in politics, and tensions emerged with some of its key members. AG
eventually bought out Horniman's Abbey shares. Murphy, James H. “Broken Glass and Batoned Crowds: <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Cathleen Ni Houlihan</span> and the Tensions of Transition”. Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921, edited by D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, Routledge, pp. 113-27. 123 |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | The play was very well received, drawing large and enthusiastic audiences. From the beginning, critics recognized its hypnotic effect and its potential to stir audiences to violence. One reviewer, Stephen Gwynn
, questioned whether such... |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
thought this was one of AG
's best plays, subtler and finer Shaw, George Bernard. “Note on Lady Gregory’s Plays”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Dan H. Laurence et al., Colin Smythe, pp. 274-6. 275 |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
thought that AG
's playwriting skills were particularly suited to the task: that in her double command of the world of fancy, and the world of the vividest, funniest fact, Lady Gregory's genius... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Gregory | |
Literary responses | Augusta Gregory | Bernard Shaw
saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse... |
Literary responses | Sarah Grand | Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain
, George Meredith
, and George Bernard Shaw
, greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation. Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, p. v - xxiv. vi |
Textual Production | Sarah Grand | An entire literary-social movement evolved alongside SG
's writings about the New Woman. New Woman fiction, amounting to a new genre, had already been produced by George Egerton
in 1893, and was produced by Iota (Kathleen Caffyn) |
Performance of text | Evelyn Glover | The play's vivid characters and snappy dialogue, alongside its minimal staging requirements, made it one of the most popular plays in the AFL's suffrage repertoire. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago. 88 |
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