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/.
Sepia head-and-shoulders photograph of George Bernard Shaw by Bains News Service, 8 November 1909. He is seen full-face, with a neat beard, gazing a little to the right with a faint smile. He wears a wool jacket and waistcoat with thin stripes, and a bowler hat slightly tilted.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Literary responses Enid Bagnold
Call Me Jacky was, as EB 's biographer Anne Sebba put it, her most disastrous failure yet.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
240
As EB saw it, audiences and critics considered her anti-black, anti-left, a sorry old bitch sitting in...
Literary responses Sarah Grand
Feminists, social reformers, and literary men, such as Mark Twain , George Meredith , and George Bernard Shaw , greeted this novel with excitement and appreciation.
Mitchell, Sally, and Sarah Grand. “Introduction”. The Beth Book, Thoemmes, 1994, p. v - xxiv.
vi
SG wrote a caustic letter to the Daily...
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 Oscar Wilde
Shaw 's review for The Saturday Review welcomed its modern note.
qtd. in
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
428-9
Literary responses Ivy Compton-Burnett
This novel made the best-seller list the month after publication; but at the end of the year it received the Bookseller's Glass Slipper award for books whose sales had not reflected their quality. Reviewers...
Material Conditions of Writing Florence Farr
The manuscript was rejected by Unwin and Heinemann before her friend John Lane accepted it for somewhat questionable reasons: It is always very pleasant to accept the MS of a new riter [sic] but it...
names G. B. Stern
  • BirthName: Gladys Bertha Stern
    At school, she later remembered, she was called Gladys Stern.
    Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958.
    34

  • Nicknames: Peter
    This was the name used by her friends. She gave it to a heroine of an early book...
Occupation Edith Craig
After the Pioneer Players folded, EC became actively involved in the Little Theatre movement which was rapidly growing outside London.
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
133-4
Between December 1920 and August 1921 she directed several plays at the Everyman Theatre
Occupation Florence Farr
Annie Horniman , whom FF met through the Order of the Golden Dawn , agreed to back the season financially. Farr succeeded in persuading Yeats to write a one-act play for her season, and enlisted...
Occupation Inez Bensusan
Organisers chose to present two feminist plays by men, Woman on Her Own by Eugène Brieux , translated by Charlotte Shaw (Bernard Shaw 's wife), and A Gauntlet by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson .
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Woman’s Theatre in England: 1913-1918”. Theatre History Studies, Vol.
15
, June 1995, pp. 123-37.
125-6
All...
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...
Occupation Dora Russell
During this period, DR 's energies were centred significantly but not exclusively on her own family. In 1922 she helped her husband with his parliamentary campaign and began her critical work The Religion of the...
Occupation Florence Farr
The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF put on many such readings, performing works by Homer , Shelley , Yeats , Lady Gregory ...
Occupation Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
His attention to questions of power and representation helped spawn poststructuralist theory. His unregenerate misogyny—expressed in contempt for little bluestockings
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin, 1990.
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like George Eliot , for George Sand as a prolific writing-cow,
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Michael Tanner. Twilight of the Idols; and, The Anti-Christ. Translator Holligdale, Reginald John, Penguin, 1990.
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