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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| Literary responses | Elizabeth Baker | Critic Sheila Stowell
, contrasting Baker's heroine with Bernard Shaw
's more ambivalent characterizations of the New Woman, sees the role of Edith as a clear and positive alternative for women. Stowell, Sheila. A Stage of Their Own. University of Michigan Press, 1992. 103 Weiss, Rudolf. “Versions of Emancipation: The Dramatic World of Elizabeth Baker”. Sprachkunst, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1989, pp. 305-16. 311 |
| 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, 1987, pp. 274-6. 275 |
| Literary responses | Josephine Tey | The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times. Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Rev. ed., Falcon, 1948. 178 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Harriett Jay | While the play achieved popular success, its literary merits were attacked. The reviewer for The Stage declared it a sub-par adaptation of George Bernard Shaw
's Pygmalion and Galatea, claiming that the authors have... |
| Literary responses | Christopher St John | St John said that after she published her novels George Bernard Shaw
(a great friend and supporter of her, Craig, and Tony Atwood
) suggested that she should write a history of her own unconventional... |
| Literary responses | E. Nesbit | When EN
asked Bernard Shaw
to review the first Lays and Legends for To-Day, he responded with a pretend review contained in a letter, a masterpiece in faint praise: The author has a fair... |
| 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 | 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 |
| Literary responses | Florence Farr | FF
's performances won the acclaim of several critics, including Yeats
himself, and her recitation technique was for a short time heralded as a new art form: according to William Archer
, in this system... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
| Literary responses | Vernon Lee | Lee's publication was panned in the Times Literary Supplement, but found strong support from Desmond MacCarthy
, writing as Affable Hawk in the New Statesman, and from G. B. Shaw
in the Nation... |
| Literary responses | Julia Constance Fletcher | The Athenæum found the acting brilliant but the play thin and badly constructed, its burlesque provoking irritation as well as mirth. Yet it bracketed Fleming with Bernard Shaw
, and gave her points for her... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The sometimes provoking George Bernard Shaw
saw the translation in manuscript and offered effusive praise in a private letter: Sylvia, you are the queerest idiot-genius of this age . . . the most ungovernable, self-intoxicated... |
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