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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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Textual Production Christopher St John
After Terry's death in 1928, St John engaged in literary as well as theatrical memorial work of various kinds. She edited Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : a Correspondence, 1931, edited and provided an...
Textual Production Marie Stopes
Other later poems include Wartime Harvest, 1944 (which brought together a preface by Lord Alfred Douglas and a letter from George Bernard Shaw ), and Instead of Tears: In Memoriam for Officers and Men...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
In the course of getting the journal off the ground, Marsden also contacted Katherine Mansfield , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Charlotte Payne-Townshend , Arnold Bennett , and Theodore Dreiser . (Payne-Townshend, wife of G. B. Shaw
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)
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.
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and other British dramatists.
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.
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The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Edith Craig
The EC archives are housed at the Ellen Terry Memorial Museum at Tenterden in Kent. The collection includes prompt copies of plays by Paul Claudel and Charlotte Perkins Gilman .
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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UCLA also holds...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
Lady Rhondda , the editor of Time and Tide, had approached EMD earlier in 1929 about writing a light serial for the journal. EMD then attended a lunch with Lady Rhondda, at which George Bernard Shaw
Textual Production E. Nesbit
EN shared with her husband the editorship (obtained for them in part by Shaw ) of the socialist journal To-Day, which serialized his novels.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Late in the nineteenth century she became poetry reviewer for the Athenæum.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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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.
Textual Production George Egerton
GE tried her hand at drama after marrying the drama critic Reginald Golding Bright . Her three plays, all dominated by female characters, were all performed without marked success. In 1905 she sent a play...
Textual Production Edith Somerville
As civil war loomed in Ireland and need for money pressed, ES made two efforts to convert the R. M. stories into a play. She first asked for help from Maurice Hastings , a friend...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pam Gems
The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw , but her life and career are also...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text G. B. Stern
Her early novels combine a strain of intellectualism (characters discuss Shaw and Nietzsche ) with a self-conscious modernity (attention to issues and to sophistication of tone). She was held to belong to the stream of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Gregory
The volume includes detailed accounts of the Abbey 's encounters with English and Irish censorship, including the struggles over Shaw 's The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Synge 's The Playboy of the Western World...

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