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 Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 | Ethel Wilson | Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to... |
| 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 | 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 | Helen Waddell | Two Dublin actors, HW
's brother Sam
and Lennox Robinson
, praised the play for the opportunities it offered to performers, and Waddell was very excited when George Bernard Shaw
read and liked it. Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable. 90-2 |
| Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | As a student in Dublin, KOB
eagerly attended the Abbey Theatre
. This was a period between Synge
and O'Casey
, but she delighted in plays by Shaw
, beginning with Man and Superman. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford. 116-17 |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Katharine Tynan | This same year KT
attended a meeting of the Browning Society
(founded in the summer of 1881) at which she met George Bernard Shaw
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 357 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Bernardine Evaristo | BE
substitutes another name for the surname she shares with her father, but gives her mother's birth name as in life. Her narrator is not Bernardine but Lara, short for Owolara, which means the family... |
| 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 |
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