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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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | The programme considered contemporary political and social subjects through the lens of historical and classical literary texts by, for instance Shakespeare
, Byron
, Shaw
, and Wilde
. It was shown on Sunday evenings. Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy. |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | While lecturing at the Zetetical Society
, AK
may have met Bernard Shaw
and Sidney Webb
. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers. 91 |
| Publishing | James Joyce | This followed its rejection by managements in England, Ireland and America, the first pronounced by George Bernard Shaw
and the second by W. B. Yeats
. O’Brien, Edna. “The ogre of betrayal”. The Guardian, pp. Review 10 - 11. 11 |
| Education | Meiling Jin | She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting
) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton
(who was kept locked away)... |
| Occupation | Harriett Jay | Her final role, in The Wanderer from Venus; or Twenty-four Hours with an Angel (a collaboration of Buchanan and herself as Charles Marlowe), was that of a young ingenue whose astronomer fiancé is temporarily... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
became known for the Saturday salon held at her house in Merrion Square, Dublin. The gatherings were attended by writers, actors, scientists, musicians, and public men; the visiting crowd sometimes reaching nearly two... |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Decades later she remembered praising Chekhov
, Hoffmansthal
, Ibsen
, and Strindberg
, while admitting that I mocked, censured, rebuked, tore down, with reckless delight, Shaw
, Yeats
, Masefield
, Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 69 |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
| Publishing | Storm Jameson | SJ
first reached print with an essay on G. B. Shaw
, published in the New Age. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 67 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | She describes her mother as in advance of her times in many ways: a bicycle rider, a Poor Law Guardian, Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 38 |
| Textual Production | Henrik Ibsen | Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx
) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris
(daughter of William Morris
) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw
as Krogstad. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233-4 |
| Literary responses | Henrik Ibsen | In The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891), George Bernard Shaw
catalogues some of the extreme reactions of English theatre critics to the play: Absolutely loathsome and fetid. . . . Unutterably offensive. . . . Most... |
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