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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politics Sylvia Pankhurst
Lenin later denounced her. Elderly communists in the late twentieth century thought Bernard Shaw was right to think her like his own Joan of Arc: often magnificent yet sometimes impossible.
Kettle, Martin. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s popularity shows the shifting nature of politics”. theguardian.com.
politics Dora Carrington
The club met for discussion and entertainments every Thursday night in Fitzroy Square, where guests and performers included Winifred Gill , Shaw , Yeats , and Arnold Bennett . The subscription fee was 5s...
Author summary Florence Farr
FF has received less attention for her own writing than for the role she played in men's: Shaw and Yeats created dramatic roles for her; Pound wrote poetry about her; and she put into practice...
Publishing Elizabeth von Arnim
Reviewers judged EA 's subsequent novels to be largely forgettable. Macmillan published her Introduction to Sally in 1926 (a comedy which is Pygmalion-like but not otherwise Shavian ); her Expiation in 1929 (an exploration...
Publishing Katharine Bruce Glasier
Writing this book helped KBG enormously in coming to terms with her grief over her son's death. The first edition was said to have sold out rapidly and is now very rare. In a new...
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.
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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.
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The first English-language production took place in New...
Publishing Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Time and Tide carried two excerpts from Woolf 's A Room of One's Own in November 1929, and the next year MHVR wrote two series of articles on the treatment of women and gender in...
Publishing Constance Lytton
After the Home Secretary assured the Fabian Society through the columns of the Times that CL had been released from prison because of her delicate health, not her class, replies appeared both from her and...
Reception Elizabeth Robins
On ER 's request, Cicely Hamilton adapted the novel as a play, but it was never performed. The Lord Chamberlain refused to license it on the grounds that it ought not be allowed to run...
Reception Sylvia Pankhurst
On first publication the book did very badly in the USA: during May and June 1931 only seventeen copies sold there, although reviews and a broadcast by Bernard Shaw had reached many thousands of people...
Reception Ethel Lilian Voynich
The novel has been adapted in the form of five separate films (one scored by Dmitri Shostakovich ), five theatrical productions (one by George Bernard Shaw written specifically to secure theatrical copyright for ELV ...
Residence Amabel Williams-Ellis
Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at...
Textual Features Hélène Barcynska
This clearly draws on the relationship between HB and Charles as she was to describe it in her autobiography. The fairy has kept herself for two weeks by her writing, but now seems more interested...
Textual Features Viola Meynell
Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
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